[QGIS-Developer] Min qt version for 3.6?

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi all,

Is this an agreement?
Can we bump to 5.9?

Denis

Le mer. 24 oct. 2018 à 16:52, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at opengis.ch> a écrit :

> Hi Nyall (Ubuntu user here),
>
> regarding ubuntu 16, I think it's negligible, it is not the latest LTS
> anymore it is scheduled for EOL in april 2021 and QGIS 3.4 is planned to be
> in LTR until February 2020. so if somebody wants/has to to stick with a 5yo
> OS, I guess it should be ok in staying one year more with QGIS 3.4.
>
> moving to Qt > 5.7 will also bean loosing support for Debian Stretch,
> which I also think is negligible since it includes 2.18 by default and
> Debian 10 should come out around mid 2019 [1] meaning by when the next QGIS
> LTR (3.10?) is out  Debian 10 will be the current stable. I hope this all
> makes sense.
>
> I cant comment for other distro but IIRC Fedora 27 already has QT 5.9.6
>
> To me would be a +1 but probably, would be nice to get Jef opinion?
>
> Cheers
>
> Marco
>
> [1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-10-Mid-2019
> On 23.10.18 00:26, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I'm wondering if we can bump the minimum Qt version for QGIS 3.6 to
> something more modern, e.g. Qt 5.9.
>
> The current minimum of 5.4/5.5 (no-one knows which it actually is!) is
> very old, and very buggy. (See discussion athttps://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/8265). The sooner we can drop
> support for 5.6, the better experience we can offer all round.
>
> By bumping to 5.9 we'd lose support for Ubuntu 16.04, but I think this
> is perfectly reasonable -- users of that platform would still be able
> to run the QGIS 3.4 LTR release. (In my opinion, running an older LTR
> distro should never equate to always having the latest end user
> applications available.)
>
> Would there be any objections to this change?
>
> Nyall
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