On Thursday, 8 October 2015 00:09:50 CEST, Pali Rohár wrote:
I'm still using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with KDE4 desktop where is Qt4 in use.
I'm not going to update to new Ubuntu version until current one is
supported and I would like to use Trojita... So I'm not happy with
change to drop Qt4 support... Same is with KDE4 plugins.
Hi Pali,
you will still be able to use Trojita v0.5 (or, actually, v0.5 plus at
least 109 other commits). You will *also* be able to use a future versoin
of Trojita provided you install a recent enough Qt5. As it turns out, there
are PPAs of various Qt5 versions even for Ubuntu 12.04 [1].
What you won't be able to do is upgrading Trojita to a newer version while
not installing Qt5 on your system. You will also not be able to install
Trojita from a prebuilt package provided by the OBS (you can fix that by
providing Qt5 packages via OBS for Ubuntu 12.04) -- but you're a developer,
so I do not think that this is going to be a problem for you.
Please try to understand that Qt5 brings real and measurable improvements,
such as compile-time signal-slot connection checks. There is simply no
technically possible way of getting that with Qt4.
Cheers,
Jan
[1] https://launchpad.net/~beineri
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