Re: Wireshark support for Qt4.8

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 25 July 2017 at 06:31, Michał Łabędzki <michal.tomasz.labedzki () gmail com>
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 () gmail com>:
> > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Roland Knall <rknall () gmail com> wrote:
> > > 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...

-- 
Graham Bloice

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