On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 at 23:21, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another thought is the spectre of "long term stable" OS releases. > > In various projects, I run into people who choose to run old software > (otherwise known as "using a LTS distribution"), but at the same time > insist on compiling the most recent release of X, and they expect X to > build against old things. I'm not a fan of this, but it seems to be a > signficant part of Linux culture.
I also struggle with this mentality! > So qgis will have to think about how long qgis will build: > > against older qt5 stable branches (5.12?) Unless there's a pressing reason to bump the qt dependency for 3.16, I'd say we leave it unchanged for 3.16. That means we have a Qt 5.9 min requirement for the 5.16 LTR, which is extremely conservative. > against qt5 5.15 We would require all future QGIS 3.x versions to build on Qt 5.15 (and probably earlier releases, say 5.11, unless there's a pressing need to bump this after 3.16). And we drop this requirement in 2-3 years, when it's time to start thinking about a new QGIS 4.0 major version where we are allowed to break QGIS API. Nyall _______________________________________________ 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
