[Qgis-developer] Qt5 and Python 3

[Bas Couwenberg]

On 2016-05-04 17:36, Larry Shaffer wrote:
>> Debian will switch to Qt5 with QGIS 2.16, otherwise there will be no 
>> QGIS
>> in the next stable release.
>> 
>> The Qt4 builds currently still work because the Qt maintainers didn't 
>> want
>> to break QGIS before Qt5 support is available, but the Qt4WebKit 
>> removal
>> changes have already been committed and will be included in the next
>> upload. The upload may happen sooner than we'd like if important 
>> bugfixes
>> need to be uploaded in the near future.
>> 
>> The changes affecting QGIS is the next stable release will arrive 
>> earlier
>> than a year from now. The freeze was planned for 5 November 2016, but 
>> has
>> been moved two months to align with the expected 4.10 kernel release. 
>> [0]
>> 
>> With the full freeze in February 2016, I expect the release to happen 
>> in
>> Q3 2016, may be even Q4. The Qt4WebKit removal will happen before the
>> transition freeze on 5 November 2016.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the clear and concise summary of this dependency issue. Do 
> you
> mean "February 2017" and "Q3 2017" here?

Yes, obviously. Only the transition freeze still happens this year. 
Everything else in 2017.

Kind Regards,

Bas