[scribus] qt5 requirements for 1.5.0svn

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Tue Sep 24 11:29:15 UTC 2013


On 09/24/2013 04:30 AM, Craig Bradney wrote:
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> On 24 Sep 2013, at 9:05, Czarek <czarek at oferuje.pl> wrote:
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>>> How about two versions of 1.5.0, one for Qt4 users and one for Qt5
>>> users?
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>> In fact 1.5 is still development version and it is not for users.
>> Fact that 1.5 is highly usable and stable is only good sign for developers 
>> they do the best but is not any promise it will be all the time before final 
>> release.
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>> So dont expect any "userfriendly" installation process now.
>> It is your risk that you use 1.5 already and you must fit requirements, not 
>> developers.
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> Yes that's exactly right. We will also be bumping up requirements on cairo and removing lcms 1 support shortly.
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> If your platform or distro doesn't support qt5 then either use the last revision of svn that supported qt4, or build qt5 yourself, or switch distro.
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> Take it as a good thing - forward looking changes and more active development!
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> Also, you should complain to your distros that do not support qt5, it been out for almost a year!
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A side benefit was that once I had qt5, I could then build the latest
Sigil (0.7.3), which also requires it.

Greg



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