Hi all, Is this an agreement? Can we bump to 5.9?
Denis Le mer. 24 oct. 2018 à 16:52, Marco Bernasocchi <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > -- > Marco Bernasocchi > QGIS.org Co-chair > [email protected] > +41 (0)79 467 24 70 <+41794672470> > > [image: OPENGIS.ch Logo] <https://www.opengis.ch> > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Denis Rouzaud [email protected] <[email protected]> +41 76 370 21 22
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