Re: Drop QT4 from master

2021-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 04/01/2021 à 17:25, Thibaut Cuvelier a écrit : On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 14:56, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > wrote: Le 29/12/2020 à 09:42, Yuriy Skalko a écrit : > Seems like boost::regex has the same issues as std::regex: > https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2021-01-04 Thread Thibaut Cuvelier
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 14:56, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 29/12/2020 à 09:42, Yuriy Skalko a écrit : > > Seems like boost::regex has the same issues as std::regex: > > > https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/unicode.html > > > > As I understand the ICU library

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2021-01-04 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 29/12/2020 à 09:42, Yuriy Skalko a écrit : Seems like boost::regex has the same issues as std::regex: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/unicode.html As I understand the ICU library is the only ultimate solution for Unicode support. Qt relies on ICU, it

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-30 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:00:26 +0100 schrieb Pavel Sanda : > On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 06:51:42PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: > > > So the question is: Can we drop support for QT4 in master? > > > Or has someone a better sollution? > > > > > > > Given that Qt 6 is now out, and that Qt 4 has been

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:52:20AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Sorry for letting everyone down. Wrong timing. Frankly I wouldn't do any better in these times. On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 11:01:51AM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > What is it that needs doing here? I can probably find

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Dienstag, dem 29.12.2020 um 12:00 -0500 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: > That may be ambitious, but we can try. I can certainly get another > alpha out ASAP and will do so. Thanks, much appreciated! Jürgen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- lyx-devel mail

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-29 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/29/20 11:57 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Dienstag, dem 29.12.2020 um 11:01 -0500 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: What is it that needs doing here? I can probably find the time. I think what it needs most urgently is someone telling us: Stop tinkering with new pet projects (including re

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Dienstag, dem 29.12.2020 um 11:01 -0500 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: > What is it that needs doing here? I can probably find the time. I think what it needs most urgently is someone telling us: Stop tinkering with new pet projects (including refactoring), there will be no more new feature, we

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-29 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/28/20 6:52 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 28 décembre 2020 21:29:02 GMT+01:00, Pavel Sanda a écrit : >> It's hard to believe, but looking back at the archives we had the 2.4 >> release-manager decision in May 2019 and first alpha1 thread in June 2019 :) >> >> JMarc, what is your situat

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-29 Thread Yuriy Skalko
Could it be that this is why boost::regex was useful after all? Did we rush too fast in our joy of getting rid of it? I do not think that solving issues with crappy compilers involves going all the way in Qt's arms. Qt does have its flaws and bugs, and besides banging our head against the wall

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Kornel Benko
Am Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:44:25 +0100 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes : > Le 28 décembre 2020 19:04:35 GMT+01:00, "Jürgen Spitzmüller" > a écrit : > >Am Montag, dem 28.12.2020 um 19:00 +0100 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > >> But this position gets weaker as we do not seem to get closer to the > >> actual rele

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 28 décembre 2020 21:29:02 GMT+01:00, Pavel Sanda a écrit : >It's hard to believe, but looking back at the archives we had the 2.4 >release-manager decision in May 2019 and first alpha1 thread in June 2019 :) > >JMarc, what is your situation nowadays? Is it still feasible for you >to do the rele

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 28 décembre 2020 19:04:35 GMT+01:00, "Jürgen Spitzmüller" a écrit : >Am Montag, dem 28.12.2020 um 19:00 +0100 schrieb Pavel Sanda: >> But this position gets weaker as we do not seem to get closer to the >> actual release, I know. > >This is what we should really aim at, actually (independent o

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 07:04:35PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Montag, dem 28.12.2020 um 19:00 +0100 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > > But this position gets weaker as we do not seem to get closer to the > > actual release, I know. > > This is what we should really aim at, actually (independent o

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Thibaut Cuvelier
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 19:04, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Montag, dem 28.12.2020 um 19:00 +0100 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > > But this position gets weaker as we do not seem to get closer to the > > actual release, I know. > > This is what we should really aim at, actually (independent of the qt >

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Montag, dem 28.12.2020 um 19:00 +0100 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > But this position gets weaker as we do not seem to get closer to the > actual release, I know. This is what we should really aim at, actually (independent of the qt question). Also, I seemed to remember that there was reluctance pull

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 06:51:42PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: > > So the question is: Can we drop support for QT4 in master? > > Or has someone a better sollution? > > > > Given that Qt 6 is now out, and that Qt 4 has been unmaintained for roughly > five years ( > https://www.qt.io/blog/2014/1

Re: Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Thibaut Cuvelier
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 18:48, Kornel Benko wrote: > We use utf-8 encoded strings. > In order to fully use regular expressions in FindAdv, we need the created > regex be case > sensitive. This works good for ascii charaters, but fails on > > The try to use docstring works better on unix systems. B

Drop QT4 from master

2020-12-28 Thread Kornel Benko
We use utf-8 encoded strings. In order to fully use regular expressions in FindAdv, we need the created regex be case sensitive. This works good for ascii charaters, but fails on The try to use docstring works better on unix systems. But there are some problems. 1.) regexes are still unable to h