On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote:
> El Dimarts, 28 d'octubre de 2014, a les 18:40:27, Aleix Pol va escriure: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > El Dimarts, 28 d'octubre de 2014, a les 15:26:46, Jonathan Riddell va > > > > > > escriure: > > > > Qt 5.4 is due to be released sometime soon. Plasma 5.2 is due to be > > > > released in January. > > > > > > Let's give some dates: > > > * Qt 5.4 release -> 2 Dec > > > * Plasma 5.2 beta -> 19 Dec (tars) > > > > > > This seems *very* close to me given that Qt has a quite good track at > > > slipping > > > the releases. > > > > > > So there are two questions here: > > > * Is there something in Qt5.4 that makes it clear we want to use it? > > > * Do we care if Plasma5.2 is delayed because Qt5.4 is delayed? > > > > > > Also going with Qt5.4 reduces greatly the amount of people that can > > > contribute > > > to those that want to build Qt themselves. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Albert > > > > > > > Plasma devs only want to support one version of Qt. There would be a > > > > few > > > > useful features in Qt 5.4 that Plasma could use but we could also > hang > > > > > > back > > > > > > > with Qt 5.3 if distros needed it. > > > > > > > > Would it be a problem to need Qt 5.4 in Plasma 5.2? > > > > > > > > Jonathan > > > > What we discussed in the 5.2 hangout, was that whenever Qt 5.4.0 is > > released for good, then we will decide to bump the Qt version > requirement. > > It was quite a heated argument by the way (for our standards anyway, > nobody > > got hurt ;)). > > So what's the hangout people view on the dates being so close and Qt > probably > slipping? Will you guys delay or? > It wasn't discussed. I would say that if Qt 5.4 is delayed Plasma 5.2 would stay with Qt 5.3, but that's my conjecture. Aleix
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