On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:54:09PM -0700, Rodger Fox wrote: > > Apparently, LMMS can be built with Qt 5: > > > > https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/wiki/Compiling-lmms#using-qt5 > > > > Can you try it and let us know how it goes? > > Ok, I looked into this. Qt5 is supported only in the newest development > version of lmms, but what I packaged is the latest stable release. > > I will make a note of this for when I update the package, but what can > we do for the mean time? Accept this as is? Package the release > candidiate? Or just wait for the next stable release of lmms before > adding this to guix? > > To be honest, the RC looks like it has some cool new features, so I > will probably be building it for myself either way. Also, lmms is on > a pretty slow release cycle. The last stable was 2015, RC-1 was > early 2016, and RC-2 was Jan 2017. So maybe if it seems stable enough > when I build it I can package the RC-2. I could do one for each if that > makes sense, kind of like the guile and guile-next packages. > What do you think? lmms and lmms-rc?
I think it's fine to package the stable release with qt-4, with a comment in the package definition indicating that we should try qt-5 when upgrading.
