[Qgis-developer] QEP - Proposal for QGIS 3.0 after 2.14

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 10/24/2015 02:15 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> On Sat, 24. Oct 2015 at 13:45:02 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> Can we not just develop in a separate branch, merge features back into master
>> whenever they are ready. Be it before or after release of 2.14 LTR.
> Right, sounds like what I intended to say ;)
>
>> I am afraid that working on two separate branches will effectively lead to
>> imporant work being done twice. Bugfixes forgotten to be ported...
> Sure, that's the risk.  I'm also not sure why we have make prediction what the
> we'll find when porting to py3/pyqt5 and use those to make plans.
>  
>> Why not:
>>
>>  * Branch off one py3/pyqt5 development branch now.
>>  * Introduce a compile time switch to control if python2 or python3 code
>>    binaries should be compiled
> And when we have that, we actually know how large the impact of py3/pyqt5 is -
> and can decide if it's better to merge the branch back to master before 2.14 or
> after.  If it's feasible to have a version that supports py2/3, pyqt4/5 and
> Qt4/5 it's before 2.14 and otherwise it's after.
>

Sold!

> Jürgen
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