Thought about a Qt port

Yannick Brosseau yannick.brosseau at gmail.com
Sat Mar 30 07:56:29 PDT 2013


On 2013-03-30 10:20, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> Alberto Mardegan <mardy at users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
>> An orthogonal question to the above is whether we want to use Qt4 or
>> Qt5. Apart from option 2a, which isn't possible in Qt4 (there is no
>> QtQuick Controls there), for the others we have the choice of using Qt4
>> or Qt5. With almost no code changes if we go for the QtWidget approach,
>> and some minor changes for the QML approach.
>> I don't have a strong opinion on this, but unless someone finds some
>> reasons to stick with Qt4, I'd suggest starting with Qt5.
> What is the status of Qt5 for Windows and Mac? Are the fully supported
> implementations? I normally would also suggest to start at the latest
> version, but want to make sure that there are no Gotchas...
>
On the QT4 vs QT5 front, if we want to be able to build on "older" Linux
distro, with might want to stick to QT4

Yannick


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