> On Jun 10, 2020, at 09:38, Toralf Lund <toralf.l...@pgs.com> wrote: > > On 09/06/2020 09:06, Eike Ziller 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 Looks like Debian even ships a pretty outdated Qt 5.12...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? > > Well, if the distributions don't upgrade Qt Creator, you *have to* built it > yourself if you want an updated version. > > This is straight forward if can use the Qt version shipped with the > distribution. If you also have to replace that, it can easily become a major > hassle.
You don’t need to replace the system version. But ok, let’s keep Qt 5.12 as the minimum version for Qt Creator 4.13. We’ve got lots of changes that can also be done with Qt 5.12. For Qt Creator 4.14 it will become either Qt 5.14 or Qt 5.15, depending on need. 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
