Marcus, I'd be very happy to collaborate with you on this! Also very happy to have you become the port maintainer.
It makes a lot of sense to me to update / correct the qt6 portfile and PG. You have a lot more experience that I borrowed from for the initial qt6 portfile and PG. Happy to have your improvements here. Thanks! John On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 9:04 AM <mcalh...@macports.org> wrote: > I have not looked at the specific issues with Qt 6.5. > However, based on our experience with the Qt5 ports, I would suggest > sticking to the upstream recommendations concerning supported versions. > > For Qt5, most of the incompatibilities were in parts of the OS that > LegacySupport and other mechanisms could not get around. > Even if the current version works on older systems now, changes in the > patch version have introduced incompatibilities. > > -Marcus > > > On Apr 5, 2023, at 5:31 AM, Chris Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Just to add, it would also be useful to know a bit on the reasons for > dropping the older OSes, what exactly are the tehcnical reasons for it, as > within macports we have a number of build options available to us, like > newer builds of the compilers which can be used instead of the Xcode > versions, that help us support a lot of ports on systems way older than > upstream for them officially support. > > > > cheers Chris > > > > On 05/04/2023 2:02 am, John Hoyt wrote: > >> Renee, > >> Thanks for the pointers - I'll take a look with fresh eyes tomorrow. > I've added a todo list in the PR, as it's very much a WIP - although I have > been able to successfully build all subports locally (still have to test > and attempt to build on arm). > >> Just a heads up - Qt6.5 seems to be a little different than the work > we've done on Qt 6.2. Some of the qt5 based CMake updates seem to no > longer be necessary (and in some cases now break things forcing incorrect > paths). > >> Regards, > >> John > >> On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:39 PM Renee Otten <ottenr.w...@gmail.com > <mailto:ottenr.w...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> hi John, > >> Thanks for working on that! Regarding the support of older macOS > >> versions: The Qt5 PortGroup and ports are the example on how this > >> was done for Qt5 and likely on how to do the same for Qt6. > >> I likely will not have time to do much work on this myself but will > >> look at the PR and see if I can provide some help… > >> Best, > >> Renee > >>> On Apr 4, 2023, at 8:32 PM, John Hoyt <john.h...@gmail.com > >>> <mailto:john.h...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> I've started working on updating the qt6 port to qt 6.5.0 (see > >>> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/18186 > >>> <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/18186>). > >>> > >>> Qt 6.5.0 removed support for macOS 10.14 and 10.15, only > >>> supporting macOS 11 and newer whereas qt 6.2 supports macOS >= > 10.14. > >>> > >>> Any suggestions on how to handle the deprecation of macOS 10.14 > >>> and 10.15? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> John > >
