[Qgis-developer] EOL for homebrew qt4 mac builds? Time for Qt5 only master?

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi,


On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall at north-road.com> wrote:

> On 5 September 2016 at 15:51, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > On 09/05/2016 07:06 AM, Nyall wrote:
> > > I was just digging in to the new build errors for the OSX Travis
> builds,
> > > and was led to this discussion:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/4365
> > >
> > > My understanding is that this is game over for the Qt4 homebrew builds.
> > > Am I mistaken here?
> > >
> > > If so - is it time to "call it" and kill Qt4 support in master? I was
> > > hoping to get all the unit tests passing under the Travis Qt5 builds
> > > first but am now wondering if that's just needlessly prolonging things.
> > > Some of the current blacklist could be much easier to address if we
> > > don't need to care about backward compatibility.
> >
> > What's the connection between having Qt4 support in the code and
> > shipping Qt5 builds on Mac?
>
> I explained that badly - I was thinking mostly about what the fastest
> way to get some supported osx version back up and running again is. If
> i'm understanding the implications of that homebrew issue correctly,
> there's now no way of building master (or even 2.16) on osx.
>

I have been working on this for ~ a day. Later today and throughout next
week I will be working on a resolution for these issues. Sorry for the
delay.

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota


> Which lead in a roundabout way to thinking about the quickest way to
> resolve the remaining qt5 test failures and how to avoid spending
> *any* more wasted minutes on qt4 compatibility ;)
>
> Nyall
>
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> >
> > I don't mind too much dropping Qt4 support. So far I didn't see any
> > reason to do it and thought there are more urgent issues where time can
> > be invested (having mac builds for 2.16, having Qt5 mac builds, having
> > Qt5 Windows builds, sorting out API issues...). If you say that there
> > are blacklisted tests (or other things) which can be resolved easier
> > without Qt4, I think we should just proceed.
> >
> > Matthias
> >
> > >
> > > Nyall
> > >
> > >
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