9:26 p.m.
Hi.
Just asking out of curiosity. When Qt5 is released, what will be our
packaging plan? Will Qt4 and Qt5 co-exist as Qt3/Qt4 do now?
regards,
Syam
11:34 a.m.
Sonic wrote:
Just asking out of curiosity. When Qt5 is released, what will be
our
packaging plan? Will Qt4 and Qt5 co-exist as Qt3/Qt4 do now?
Yes, of course. They are binary-incompatible and to some extent source-
incompatible, so we cannot expect all software to instantly use the new
Qt 5, thus a compatibility package will be maintained, as for Qt 3 (as long
as it is needed, possibly "forever"). You will be able to have Qt 3, 4 and 5
installed all at the same time. (I still have no plans to drop Qt 3. Even if
the other maintainers resign, I'll pick it up.)
Kevin Kofler
11:18 a.m.
On 09/23/2012 10:04 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sonic wrote:
> Just asking out of curiosity. When Qt5 is released, what will be our
> packaging plan? Will Qt4 and Qt5 co-exist as Qt3/Qt4 do now?
Yes, of course. They are binary-incompatible and to some extent source-
incompatible, so we cannot expect all software to instantly use the new
Qt 5, thus a compatibility package will be maintained, as for Qt 3 (as long
as it is needed, possibly "forever"). You will be able to have Qt 3, 4 and 5
installed all at the same time. (I still have no plans to drop Qt 3. Even if
the other maintainers resign, I'll pick it up.)
So, I guess we will have a parallel installation of Qt5 with tools like
"qmake-qt5" etc. That's good news for me.
Has anyone tried packaging Qt5 beta for a parallel set-up with Qt4?
On a related note, any concrete ideas on the version of KDE that'd come
with RHEl 7?
We use RHEL 5.3 at work for many mission critical workstations. We are
quite agnostic to changes and haven't adopted RHEL6. But some recent PC
hardware are making us use RHEL6 on some less important installations.
In 2013 or 2014, when RHEL7 is released, I was curious if we'll have a
good version of KDE to go with it. RHEL6 came with a very shabby KDE
4.3, (and without KDevelop).
Perhaps I can port my applications to Qt5 (and incidentally Qwt 6.x)
along with adoption of RHEL 7.
What do you think?
regards,
Syam
3:11 p.m.
Sonic wrote:
So, I guess we will have a parallel installation of Qt5 with tools
like
"qmake-qt5" etc. That's good news for me.
Yes, that's the plan.
Has anyone tried packaging Qt5 beta for a parallel set-up with Qt4?
Not yet, we're waiting on whether upstream reacts to our requests to make it
easier to support parallel installation. We'd like to avoid distro-specific
hacks to the extent possible.
On a related note, any concrete ideas on the version of KDE
that'd come
with RHEl 7?
Unfortunately, I cannot comment on that because I just plain don't know (in
fact I don't even know whether a decision has been made yet), and those who
do know are probably not allowed to tell you either.
What I can tell you is that it's unlikely to be a 5.x version because
upstream development on a kde-workspace 5.x hasn't started at all yet. But
the amount of support, if any, which will be given to Qt 5 and KDE
Frameworks 5 is also something I don't know anything about.
Kevin Kofler
8:56 p.m.
On 09/29/2012 01:41 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> On a related note, any concrete ideas on the version of KDE that'd come
> with RHEl 7?
Unfortunately, I cannot comment on that because I just plain don't know (in
fact I don't even know whether a decision has been made yet), and those who
do know are probably not allowed to tell you either.
:-(
What I can tell you is that it's unlikely to be a 5.x version because
upstream development on a kde-workspace 5.x hasn't started at all yet. But
the amount of support, if any, which will be given to Qt 5 and KDE
Frameworks 5 is also something I don't know anything about.
Yes. Even I didn't expect KDE 5.x since I had heard that Fedora 18 would
probably be the base for RHEL 7.
All I hope for is a decent KDE, 4.9.x or even 4.10 perhaps. 4.8.x would
be too old by the time RHEL7 is released.
Anyway, regarding Qt, I hope it comes out with a very new 4.8.x version.
I can build and install Qt5 from Fedora src RPMs
(this is pretty much what I did for RHEL5, except for some quirks with
Phonon). That's why asked if it will be possible to
have Qt5 & 4 in parallel.
Thanks for the excellent work in managing Qt & KDE.
regards,
Syam
4220
days inactive
4226
days old
4 comments
2 participants
participants (2)
-
Kevin Kofler -
Sonic