On lundi 7 août 2017 17:36:05 CEST Rex Dieter wrote: > David Faure wrote: > > On lundi 7 août 2017 16:46:59 CEST Rex Dieter wrote: > >> David Faure wrote: > >> > On mercredi 2 août 2017 22:55:10 CEST Rex Dieter wrote: > >> >> David Faure wrote: > >> >> > According to the policy that KF5 should work with the last 3 > >> >> > releases of Qt5.x, it is time now for upcoming releases of KF5 to > >> >> > drop support for Qt 5.6. > >> >> > > >> >> > Packagers: is that acceptable? > >> >> > >> >> I'd prefer to continue to allow 5.6 awhile, to continue to allow > >> >> support for rhel 7. > >> > > >> > That's curious, how do you package the parts of KDE Applications or > >> > Workspace that already require Qt 5.7 ? > >> > >> I haven't packaged those pieces yet. > >> > >> Sounds like you may have moved forward anyway, so I guess I'll have to > >> start > >> the process of removing KF5 from the EPEL addon repository for rhel7. I > >> shame, I and a few others did a fair amount of work to get that in. > > > > Isn't it an option to leave it in, at version 5.36, rather than removing > > it completely ? > > In the short-term, yes. > > Long term, I'm not willing to ship (and support) this if it's not supported > upstream either (where bugs are usually fixed in newer releases).
I thought you said that long term you were looking at upgrading to Qt 5.9... In any case I'm not sure why Qt's promise to maintain 5.6 for 3 years means that all Qt-based libraries must promise the same. -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5