What kept away from Qt5 were mainly some bugs in their Mac backend which render unusable TeXmacs menus. Changes in the codebase are minimal (as far as I remember).
These bugs seems gone now and so, as soon as Joris is willing to make major changes, we can start integrating Qt5 and also see what need to be done for Qt6. Max > On 6. Jan 2020, at 16:43, Darcy Shen via Texmacs-dev <texmacs-dev@gnu.org> > wrote: > > From https://www.qt.io/blog/2019/08/07/technical-vision-qt-6 > > I learned that Qt 6.0 may be ready for a first release by the end of 2020. > > And GNU TeXmacs is still using Qt 4. > > Personally, I hope that GNU TeXmacs can switch to Qt 5 before the release of > Qt 6.0 . > > It would be a heavy burden to maintain C++ code that work for both Qt 4 and > Qt 5. > > I suggest that once we switch to Qt 5, we may stop support Qt 4 and start > experimental support for Qt 6. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
