Re: Qt 5.10 skipped?

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Aug 30, 2023, at 19:40, Jason Liu wrote:
> 
> I just noticed that Qt 5.9 and Qt 5.11 are available in MacPorts, but not Qt 
> 5.10. Was there a specific reason why 5.10 was skipped, or was it just that 
> no one got around to it before 5.11 was released?

Certainly qt 5.10.x existed in MacPorts. You can find bugs that were filed 
against it:

https://trac.macports.org/query?port=~qt5=~%405.10 


I couldn't immediately find the commit in which it was removed. It's a little 
difficult since the qt5 portfile is massive and there are also the qt5 
portgroups. But I suspect it was deleted because there exists no macOS version 
for which qt 5.10.x is the most recent one available. 

> And a somewhat tangential question: When using the qt5 PortGroup, is there a 
> way to specify a particular version of Qt 5.x that needs to be used? I do see 
> plenty of references to ${qt5.version}, but is that something that I am 
> allowed to set in my Portfile?

Looking near the top of the qt5-1.0 portgroup,

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/_resources/port1.0/group/qt5-1.0.tcl
 


the prominent placement of qt5.min_version suggests to me that it is intended 
for portfile authors to override it. 38 ports reference this variable.

I don't believe there is any way for you to specify a maximum qt version, nor a 
specific version. The qt5 portgroup will select the blessed qt version that is 
compatible with the user's OS version. 

Qt 5.10 skipped?

[Jason Liu]

Hi everyone,

I just noticed that Qt 5.9 and Qt 5.11 are available in MacPorts, but not
Qt 5.10. Was there a specific reason why 5.10 was skipped, or was it just
that no one got around to it before 5.11 was released?

And a somewhat tangential question: When using the qt5 PortGroup, is there
a way to specify a particular version of Qt 5.x that needs to be used? I do
see plenty of references to ${qt5.version}, but is that something that I am
allowed to set in my Portfile?

-- 
Jason Liu