Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] When to drop Qt 4 support and require Qt 5?

[Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx>]

That list is currently being worked on by many peoples. Also, there are some parts on that list, which have not been adressed yet.

But as far as versions go, it was agreed at SFEU17, that all dependencies for 2.4 must be set for 2.6 as well. 3.0 is when we cut off, and for now, I would keep it that way.

2.6 should be the final LTS for gtk and qt4.8

Roland

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 25 Jan 2018, at 15:56, Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wireshark-dev [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@wireshark.org] On Behalf Of Peter Wu
> Sent: den 25 januari 2018 15:20
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] When to drop Qt 4 support and require Qt 5?
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> 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?
> --
>
> I'd vote for branching off 2.6 now and go all hog and require the latest stuff for everything.( e.g What's in SuSE 12.2 RedHat 7,? Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04).
> And/Or require Qt5 for 2.6, older systems can still use GTK.
> /Anders

Hi,

Stig documented on January 13th a list of issues which should be attended too before branching of 2.6 would be prudent. I see that translation stuff is being addressed, the rest I haven’t looked at yet. Let’s seriously look at this list and come to a conclusion.

Thanks,
Jaap

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