On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 10:24 AM Eike Ziller <eike.zil...@qt.io> wrote:
> > > > 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 Looks like Debian even ships a pretty outdated Qt 5.12...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? > I prefer to use the system's Qt, and not install binaries or compile from source. Give them some time to upgrade. > 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. Agreed. - Orgad
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