On 05/04/2016 11:14 AM, Bas Couwenberg wrote: > On 2016-05-04 11:00, Matthias Kuhn wrote: >> I tend towards Qt >= 5.7 - on Windows and Mac we control the >> dependencies, so that should be ok anyway, on Linux we can say "if you >> want a recent QGIS, get a recent distro". And by the time we actually >> ship QGIS with a Qt5 dependency there should be a number of distros with >> Qt 5.7. > > This rules out backports for Debian stable, so I'm not in favour of this > option. > > The next Debian stable release may support Qt 5.7, but packaging is not > on the horizon yet. Qt 5.5.1 is currently in testing/unstable (and > Ubuntu xenial) with 5.6 in experimental. > > I'd like to keep maintaining backports for the most recent LTR because > that's in the interest of our users, if dependency requirements make > that impossible it's unfortunate but not the end of the world.
Wouldn't there be the possibility of shipping Qt, QScintilla and QWT in /opt? I acknowledge that this is not the best solution but it could be a temporary fix. Matthias _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
