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

[Nathan Woodrow]

What ever we do we just can't break plugins unless it's planned out and all
in one go to reduce the number of updates that need to be done

On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 8:11 am Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:

> Hi Nyall,
>
> On Sun, 25. Oct 2015 at 06:13:22 +1100, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > But keeping the possibility of merging the branch before 2.14 means the
> api
> > is locked... That's not ideal, it'll create a lot of (unneeded) extra
> work.
> > I'd say allow breaks in the branch, merge after 2.14.
>
> Well, if we explore if there is a smooth migration path to PyQt5 first,
> there
> might be a way to have 2.14 also support Qt5 and PyQt5 - so we might be
> able to
> have a 2.14 working on OSX with Qt5.  That's why we're in a hurry, right?
> But
> frankly OSX is not really a priority for me.
>
> For Debian (not so sure about Ubuntu) and Windows the Qt switch is not that
> pressing (IIRC last time we discussed that meant after 2.14 goes out of
> maintaince - so no need to have both Qts, both pythons and both PyQts in
> OSGeo4W).
>
> Anyway, we can probably also use our findings in the new branch to update
> master just in that direction before 2.14.
>
>
> Jürgen
>
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