QtLocation map updates

[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 2 August 2017 at 07:22, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:14:52AM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
>> On 2 August 2017 at 01:49, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Nice. I would love to be able to see if this could be made to work with
>> > Qt 5.7 (or even better 5.6) - otherwise we are leaving a lot of distributions
>> > behind. Requiring 5.9 is no problem for Windows and Mac, but for the
>> > various Linux distros (about 20% or so of our users) it's a no go. Most
>> > are not even on 5.8 at this point.
>>
>> i quickly browsed the source and i can't find some of those new 5.9
>> signals that were breaking the build with Qt 5.7.
>> maybe you can try building the plugin with the older Qt?
>
> So I need this to work under Qt 5.6 in order to make our AppImage happy.
> 5.6 is the newest version of Qt that I can get for CentOS 6 (which we use
> to build the app image).
>

best thing to do is try building it.
but 5.6 might need some porting of the plugin, plus #ifdefs that the
maintainer might not accept upstream.
hopefully none of that.

lubomir
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