Re: Increasing Qt dependency in master

Milian Wolff <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:47:37 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop
Message-ID	<2325700.RiAdg2ZgZn@milian-workstation>

On Montag, 26. Oktober 2020 11:28:14 CET Igor Kushnir wrote:
> On 2020-10-26 12:09, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > On Montag, 26. Oktober 2020 09:30:30 CET Igor Kushnir wrote:
> >> If we do make the leap to 5.12, I'd like it to be straight to 5.12.1
> >> rather than 5.12.0 to ease porting from QRegExp::Wildcard to
> >> QRegularExpression::wildcardToRegularExpression(). The behavior of this
> >> function was changed in Qt 5.12.1 as it started anchoring its return
> >> value to fix QTBUG-72539.
> > 
> > Personally I'm fine with that.
> > 
> > What distros would we lose by this move?
> > 
> > Cheers
> 
> By requiring 5.12.0 we'd lose Debian stable [buster], old Ubuntu LTS
> [18.04] and old OpenSUSE Leap [15.1]. By requiring 5.12.1 we'd not lose
> any extra popular distro version in addition to these 3 releases, I think.

It looks like current KF5 releases already depends on 5.12, so I'd like to 
move forward and also require 5.12.1 for kdevelop.

If there are no objections, I'll implement that change soon.

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Milian Wolff
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http://milianw.de

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