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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>qt4/qt5: Current Development Environment for Scribus</b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"><b>A question for the Scribus Core Developers</b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">Currently the Scribus software package ( 1.5.0svn ) seems to be ported from using the cross platform application framework QT, version QT4 to version QT5. ( See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework)> and <https://qt-project.org/> ).</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">Could please someone of the Scribus core developers shortly describe</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"> - the software development environment, which is currently being used to develop Scribus,</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"> - the role, which QT plays in it,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana"> - the advantages, which are realized by using in the future QT5 instead of QT4?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">Is there already a verified up to date description for compiling QT5 based Scribus from the sources? </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">What is required for successful compilations from the sources after the change to QT5 based Scribus, please?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">Many thanks in advance for any answer!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana">Gunter</p>
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