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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: Requiring Qt 5.15 for KDE Frameworks 5?
From:       Nicolás_Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-03-27 16:07:14
Message-ID: 9A0205A9-82FE-40C7-90BC-1AD95A6A0C64 () gmail ! com
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> El 27 mar. 2021, a la(s) 12:30, Fabian Vogt <fabian@ritter-vogt.de> \
> escribió: Moin,
> 
> Am Samstag, 27. M?rz 2021, 14:11:38 CET schrieb David Faure:
> > > > > On samedi 27 mars 2021 12:51:37 CET Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > during the ongoing KDE Frameworks 6 sprint we were just \
> > > > contemplating whether we can bump the required Qt dependency for \
> > > > Frameworks 5 to Qt 5.15. Reason being that Qt 5.15 includes a set \
> > > > of porting aids and forward-compatibility with Qt 6, such as \
> > > > version-less "Qt" rather than "Qt5" CMake target, various \
> > > > QStringView-related features, and so on. We would like to start \
> > > > working on KDE Frameworks 6 on Qt 6 but still keep Frameworks 5 \
> > > > supported with as little overhead as possible, i.e. not having a \
> > > > gazillion ifdefs or even dedicated branch, which we would likely \
> > > > need, should we have to continue supporting Qt 5.14 in the process. \
> > > > Are there any objections or concerns or potential release schedule \
> > > > conflicts if we did that?
> > While at it, can we also get your feedback on
> > * Requiring C++17
> 
> Which for GCC means at least g++ 9 in practice due to std::filesystem?

I think we need to be more specific and say what is the minimum compiler \
version. Maybe we can set g++8 as the minimum and use C++17 language \
features while avoiding std::filesystem.

But only if someone actually cares about keeping gcc8 support :)

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Nicolás=


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