We can define a lower bound for acceptable qt5 version like we do for python 3 vs 2. I would not want a crappy qt 5.1 on a system with a perfectly valid qt4.8.
Note that the end of life warning is not relevant on old systems (in Linux world). So, what is the minimal good qt5 version ? JMarc Le 1 mai 2017 01:23:41 GMT+02:00, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> a écrit : >Suppose that a system has both Qt 4 and Qt 5 development libraries >installed. Should our automake and CMake build systems choose to use Qt >4 or Qt 5? > > >The argument to still choose Qt 4 by default is that LyX 5.6 is the >minimum recommended version for LyX. > >If we do want to switch to Qt 5 by default for 2.3.0, perhaps we should >give a warning or error for Qt less than (e.g.) 5.5 (maybe we do >already?).
