> On Jun 9, 2020, at 09:06, Eike Ziller <eike.zil...@qt.io> wrote: > > > >> On Jun 9, 2020, at 07:09, Orgad Shaneh <org...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:02 AM André Pönitz <apoen...@t-online.de> wrote: >> Short version: >> >> We'd like to bump the minimum Qt version needed to build Qt Creator itself >> to Qt 5.14 starting with the upcoming Qt Creator 4.13 (the current 'master' >> branch in the repo) >> >> Hi, >> >> Debian sid still ships 5.12.5. Qt 5.14 is currently in the experimental >> repository. >> >> Same goes for Ubuntu. 20.04 ships 5.12.8, and 5.14 is available only on >> 20.10. >> >> I'd rather wait for 5.14 to land on the major distributions before raising >> the required version. >> >> - Orgad > > The released Ubuntu and Debian distributions usually do not upgrade Qt > Creator. Looks like Debian even ships a pretty outdated Qt 5.12... > So the affected group would be people who build Qt Creator themselves. > IMO it is not a big issue to require a newer Qt version for that? > > On the other hand branching of Qt Creator 4.13 is only 3 weeks away, so doing > that requirement bump for 4.14 wouldn’t delay us that much.
And I’d say for Qt Creator 4.14 we then need to do what we need to do to be able to build with Qt 5 and 6, even if that means Qt 5.15 as the minimum requirement. > > Br, Eike -- Eike Ziller Principal Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Erich-Thilo-Straße 10 D-12489 Berlin eike.zil...@qt.io http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator
