[QGIS-Developer] Min qt version for 3.6?

[Paolo Cavallini]

I think nobody objected, we can go ahead.
Cheers.

Il 3 novembre 2018 01:32:09 CET, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>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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