[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 3.46 builds to use Qt6?

Greg Troxel gdt at lexort.com
Tue Dec 17 06:54:43 PST 2024


Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> writes:

>> Are you suggesting that the same sources have a different version number
>> expressed in "qgis --version" and recommended for binary package naming,
>> depending on how they are built?
>
> I'd suggest that at some point QGIS master stops supporting Qt5
> builds, and such a version is released as QGIS 4.0.

I can certainly see the point of that.  To Nyall's don't-break-API
point, that could happen without any other API breaks.

But there will be 3.x builds which are qt5 and qt6, and thus the version
number won't really mean that the API is one or the other.  That's
probably intractable.


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