Bo Victor Thomsen <[email protected]> writes: > 3. I like the idea, that you can build QGIS with both the QT ver 5.x > and QT ver 6.x in a (limited) time period. That gives the plugin > developer some peace of mind, having both the "old" and the "new" > QGIS as a testing ground before plugin release
I like this too, but given many packaging systems and many reasons, I see "limited" as being like a year and maybe more. Basically it would be nice if qgis worked on both until very few people had a reason to use qt5, and I think that just means sticking to the non-deprecated API in 5.15. A really big question is how packaging systems are going to deal with qt6. With qt4->qt5, pkgsrc had qt4 and qt5 packages. qt4 remains, although less and less uses it. I am pretty sure some useful code that uses qt5 is going to take a really long time to build against qt6, and thus qt5 is likely to remain for several years. This leads to needing to have qt6 packages, rather than updating qt5 to "qt5-6.0.0". I epxect Debian and Fedora are going to add qt6 that can be installed alongside qt5, rather than just updating the qt5 packages to qt6, because replacing qt5 with qt6 would lead to removing all qt5-using packages that don't have a release that works with qt6. Certainly I expect pkgsrc to head that way, and it would be interesting to hear from Debian, FC, FreeBSD ports, the various mac-oly packaging systems, etc. _______________________________________________ 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
