Hi Laurent, as we agreed before, we will ship both Qt4 and Qt5 versions. It is staying next on my todo list. I think it will also be possible to prepare such a package for stable Jessie.
Best regards Anton 2015-06-18 16:56 GMT+02:00 Laurent Rineau < laurent.rineau__fed...@normalesup.org>: > Hi Anton, Frederic, Leopold, > > Have you progressed on the subject? > > Will you support Qt4 and Qt5 at the same time, or will you impose Qt5 in > libGLViewer? > > Which Debian versions are impacted? Will it be possible to install > "libGLViewer-Qt5" in Debian testing and stable? > > > The CGAL project is willing to switch completely from Qt4 to Qt5 during > this > summer, with the publishing of CGAL-4.7-beta1 (planned in the early > August 2015), and I am wondering what will be the plan for our users on > Debian/Ubuntu. > > > On the Fedora side, I planned to allow the installation of libQGLViewer-qt4 > and libQGLViewer-qt5 in parallel. > > > > Le Monday 04 May 2015 18:44:30 Anton Gladky a écrit : > > Hi Laurent, > > > > it is exactly, what I plan to do within the next several > > weeks. I also built already libqglviewer against Qt5 for > > our experimental branch [1]. It will also be renamed > > by adding -qt4 and -qt5 suffixes. Later -qt4 package > > will be removed as planned for the next stable release. > > > > Maybe, you are also right with the renaming library > > regarding numbering. > > > > [1] > > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libqglviewer&suite=experimen > > tal > > > > Best regards > > > > Anton > > > > > > 2015-05-04 15:04 GMT+02:00 Laurent Rineau > > > > <laurent.rineau__fed...@normalesup.org>: > > > Dear Debian maintainers of libQGLViewer, > > > > > > I am the Fedora maintainer of libQGLViewer, and I would like to share > > > ideas > > > about ABI compatibility and about the Qt5 support of that package. > > > > > > The upstream libQGLViewer already supports Qt5. The problem is that the > > > upstream name of the library does not change when it is compiled with > Qt4 > > > or Qt5. That does not help the parallel installation of the two > versions. > > > > > > > > > In the Fedora package, I plan to rename the Qt5 version to > > > libQGLViewer-qt5.> > > > For example, the .so files will be (on x86_64): > > > - for Qt4: > > > /usr/lib64/libQGLViewer-qt4.so > > > > > > - for Qt5: > > > /usr/lib64/libQGLViewer-qt5.so > > > > > > I will also add a symbolic link /usr/lib64/libQGLViewer.so, that will > > > points to the Qt4 version, for compatibility reason. > > > > > > Do you have similar plans? If you do, I could try to suggest the > upstream > > > author to apply that new naming convention in the upstream version. > > > > > > > > > For the ABI compatibility, I have found out that the ABI of that > library > > > changes for each release. For that reason, I have decided to bump the > > > SONAME of the library at each version: for example for version 2.5.3, > the > > > soname of the Qt4 version is "libQGLViewer.so.2.5.1", with the full > > > version encoded in the SONAME. Do you have comments/suggestions about > > > that? > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Laurent Rineau > > > > > > -- > > > Laurent Rineau > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau > > -- > Laurent Rineau > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau > >
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