On 25 July 2017 at 06:31, Michał Łabędzki <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1 for drop Qt4.8 (about 6 years old lib... enough time to upgrade it > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history) > > What about new Qt5 version? Qt5.2 to support Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? > (however it seems to be not a problem to have newer one > https://wiki.qt.io/Install_Qt_5_on_Ubuntu ) > > CentOS? http://wiki.qt.io/How_to_Install_Qt_5_and_Qwt_on_CentOS_6 > Maybe something like Docker saves the day? > > One thing about dropping practise - it is good to write about that to > some file "requirements.txt?" It may greatly help some people to port > or get last available Wireshark for theirs environment. For example: > "4th July 2018 - drop Qt 4.8 support, git sha: 4ff4ff4ff4..." > > We do record this kind of information already, see the lifecycle page on the wiki, in the "End of life planning" section: https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle > PS. Traditionally +1 for drop others build systems (autotools?). [but, > +1 also for drop cmake and keeps only autotools...] > > 2017-07-24 16:06 GMT+02:00 Alexis La Goutte <[email protected]>: > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Roland Knall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi > >> > >> Wireshark master currently does not build with Qt 4.8. The reason for > >> that, can be seen in > >> > >> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13909 > >> > >> These issues should be fixed in the near future. But it raises the > bigger > >> topic, if Qt 4.8 should be supported in whatever version comes after > 2.4. > >> Are there any big reasons or support cases, where Qt 4.8 is a definite > >> requirement and going to Qt 5.x is not an option? > >> > >> The list on > >> https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Support_library_version_tracking > is a > >> starting point for discussion I would assume, but as we no longer > support Qt > >> 4.6, SLES 12 and RHEL/CentoOS 7 would be my point of reference, and both > >> support Qt 5. > >> > >> Am I missing some references here? An can we start to discuss moving the > >> Qt version to 5.x > >> > > +1 for may be drop 4.x support > > if i remember there is some -(core)dev using some old (CentOS?) linux > system > > and don't have Qt 5 support... > > > > > > > -- Graham Bloice
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