Apologies, Mattia. Autocorrect! > On 12 Nov 2020, at 18:08, Craig Bradney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Maria > > No sorry, we’re firmly in Qt 514 territory now. We need to keep moving > forward and Ubuntu needs to move forward too. There are no risks or troubles. > Ubuntu is just behind and should have already been on a later version of Qt > sooner. Even 20.10 doesn’t have 5.15 which is just poor. We’d have moved to > 5.15 if it wasn’t for 20.10. Users of Scribus should be advised to move to > 20.10. > > Sorry! > > Craig > >> On 12 Nov 2020, at 17:38, Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I noticed that the required Qt version was bumped to 5.14, from 5.11, >> right after the 1.5.6 release. >> https://www.scribus.net/websvn/comp.php?repname=Scribus&compare[]=%2F@24200&compare[]=%2F@24201 >> >> On IRC a-l-e told me that this was done to avoid some "warnings", but >> clearly I imagine there are also some other features that are keen on >> using as well. >> >> However, I'd like to ask if you could stick to Qt 5.12, which is the >> version available in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. There are plenty of people >> asking for an updated scribus on Ubuntu 20.04, but requiring a newer Qt >> brings all kinds of risks and troubles¹. >> >> Thanks for your understanding! >> Mattia >> >> >> >> ¹ I'd either need to import a newer Qt into the PPA, and therefore >> having people install those libraries as well, surely leading to some >> kind of conflict, or figure a way to statically link scribus against Qt >> (is that even possible with the current build system?). Either way, >> they both carry their own risk from my POV. >> >> -- >> regards, >> Mattia Rizzolo >> >> GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. >> More about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : >> Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` >> Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `- >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus-dev
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