[Qgis-developer] Qt5 and Python 3

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 2016-05-04 11:56, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> 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.

For the upstream QGIS packages this may be an option, for the official 
packages in the Debian archive it is not.

Kind Regards,

Bas