On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:22 PM Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:23 PM Sune Vuorela <nos...@vuorela.dk> wrote: > > > > On 2023-06-20, David Redondo <k...@david-redondo.de> wrote: > > > Harald and I prototyped another solution to build a Qt > > > 5 and Qt 6 version out of the same repo and employed it on > > > plasma-integration: > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-integration/-/ > > > merge_requests/91 > > > > Did I miss something or is this just branching but without having git to > > help us move stuff between versions? > > Yes but no. If we have two branches we also need two tars and everyone > needs to do two things. If we have everything in the same branch then > everything is as usual. Also, the sources are so divergent that > picking is bound to be annoying. > It sounds like we are approaching (or have already hit) a "crossroads" where it is time for the Qt 5 codebase to enter a stable release only phase, with master becoming Qt 6 exclusive. Splitting the code into separate Qt 5 / Qt 6 folders sounds like it will be difficult to ensure that all bug fixes are applied equally to both sides. > > HS > Cheers, Ben
