[Qgis-developer] Qt5 and Python 3

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 05/04/2016 11:14 AM, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
> On 2016-05-04 11:00, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> I tend towards Qt >= 5.7 - on Windows and Mac we control the
>> dependencies, so that should be ok anyway, on Linux we can say "if you
>> want a recent QGIS, get a recent distro". And by the time we actually
>> ship QGIS with a Qt5 dependency there should be a number of distros with
>> Qt 5.7.
> 
> This rules out backports for Debian stable, so I'm not in favour of this
> option.
> 
> The next Debian stable release may support Qt 5.7, but packaging is not
> on the horizon yet. Qt 5.5.1 is currently in testing/unstable (and
> Ubuntu xenial) with 5.6 in experimental.
> 
> I'd like to keep maintaining backports for the most recent LTR because
> that's in the interest of our users, if dependency requirements make
> that impossible it's unfortunate but not the end of the world.

Wouldn't there be the possibility of shipping Qt, QScintilla and QWT in
/opt? I acknowledge that this is not the best solution but it could be a
temporary fix.

Matthias