[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25 July 2017 at 06:31, Michał Łabędzki <michal.tomasz.labedzki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+1 for drop Qt4.8 (about 6 years old lib... enough time to upgrade it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history)

What about new Qt5 version? Qt5.2 to support Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
(however it seems to be not a problem to have newer one
https://wiki.qt.io/Install_Qt_5_on_Ubuntu )

CentOS? http://wiki.qt.io/How_to_Install_Qt_5_and_Qwt_on_CentOS_6
Maybe something like Docker saves the day?

One thing about dropping practise - it is good to write about that to
some file "requirements.txt?" It may greatly help some people to port
or get last available Wireshark for theirs environment. For example:
"4th July 2018 - drop Qt 4.8 support, git sha: 4ff4ff4ff4..."

We do record this kind of information already, see the lifecycle page on the wiki, in the "End of life planning" section: https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LifeCycle

 

PS. Traditionally +1 for drop others build systems (autotools?). [but,
+1 also for drop cmake and keeps only autotools...]

2017-07-24 16:06 GMT+02:00 Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hi
>>
>> Wireshark master currently does not build with Qt 4.8. The reason for
>> that, can be seen in
>>
>> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13909
>>
>> These issues should be fixed in the near future. But it raises the bigger
>> topic, if Qt 4.8 should be supported in whatever version comes after 2.4.
>> Are there any big reasons or support cases, where Qt 4.8 is a definite
>> requirement and going to Qt 5.x is not an option?
>>
>> The list on
>> https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Support_library_version_tracking is a
>> starting point for discussion I would assume, but as we no longer support Qt
>> 4.6, SLES 12 and RHEL/CentoOS 7 would be my point of reference, and both
>> support Qt 5.
>>
>> Am I missing some references here? An can we start to discuss moving the
>> Qt version to 5.x
>>
> +1 for may be drop 4.x support
> if i remember there is some -(core)dev using some old (CentOS?) linux system
> and don't have Qt 5 support...
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Graham Bloice