[Pkg-octave-devel] building with Qt 5?

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:28:12AM -0700, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 19:53:01 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > Is upstream officially supporting Qt 5?
> 
> Yes, the intent since 4.2.0 is to support both. Fedora is shipping
> Octave built against Qt 5 now.
> 
> I have been using Octave with Qt 5 locally, but I don't do a lot of
> plotting, and I am affected by some of the known issues with Qt 5 and
> OpenGL.

Given that the Qt/KDE wants to remove Qt 4 for buster, and given that upstream
supports Qt 5, I think we should do the move right now. This will give us more
testing and more time to deal with arising issues.

Does that sound good to you and others?

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