Hi all,
Qt 4.8 has not been supported for two years now ("standard support"
ended in December 2015,
https://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/05/26/qt-4-8-7-released/). Is it feasible
to drop support for Qt 4 and require Qt 5?
The development branch has apparently been broken for a while, I tried
to patch it up here: https://code.wireshark.org/review/25469
Reasons not to drop Qt 4.8 support:
- RHEL/CentOS 6 by default do not have Qt 5, see
https://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Support_library_version_tracking#RHEL.2FCentOS
Reasons to drop Qt 4.8 support:
- Reduce maintenance overhead (allow use of new Qt 5 features, use new
signal/slot syntax, ...).
- Related to the above, dropping Qt 4 would enable simplification:
https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201712/msg00045.html
- Upstream support has ended in December 2015.
- We do not test it (not even compile testing), so bugs will sneak in.
- macOS and Windows already require Qt 5.
It is probably too late for 2.6, but can we commit to this for the next
version? Or can we already declare Qt 4 unsupported now?
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Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl