Hi,
now that the Qt4 is going to hit its end-of-life from upstream (scheduled
for end of 2015), it's about time to free ourselves from the backward
compatibility baggage, and start using stuff like the new signal-slot
syntax, lambda functions or real foreach stuff.
Here's my proposal:
- require Qt 5.2,
- require a compiler with decent support for C++11 (this time including
lambdas).
These changes will therefore happen in a few days:
- default to a Qt5 build right now,
- kill the Harmattan version right now.
When that stuff is done, it's time to work on the rest. The required steps
to get there are these:
- kill RHEL6 packages (gcc 4.4...),
- kill Ubuntu 12.04 LTS packaging (no Qt5),
- kill Debian 7 (no Qt5 except in backports which are not in the OBS),
- remove the KDE4-specific plugins because they cannot co-exist in a Qt5
version -- it would be better to port them to KF5, but I have no idea if
the KDE side is ready, and I won't be doing this myself anyway,
- use EPEL to get Qt 5.4 to RHEL7 builds (with manual pain in the OBS),
- continue with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Qt 5.2) and other newer non-LTS builds,
- continue with Debian 8 (Qt 5.3),
- switch all remaining OBS builds to use Qt 5,
- rewrite the windows installer to use newer mingw packages (that is once
again Qt 5.4 from EPEL).
If you see some troubles with this proposal, please speak up now.
With kind regards,
Jan
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