Re: Building with Qt4 ?

[Pantxo]

Mike Miller-4 wrote
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 20:16:02 +0200, Julien Bect wrote:
>> I read the thread but the last email says "If we drop checking for Qt
>> 4..."
>> and "If we come to a consensus on this..." so I don't know what the
>> actuall
>> conclusion is.
> 
> There has been no conclusion or decision made beyond that.
> 
>> Currently, configure silently accepts my configuration (with Qt4) but
>> then
>> make fails.
> 
> We have had a couple changes recently on the default branch that created
> similar situations, not a new problem.
> 
>> If Qt4 support was actually dropped, I should file a bug report
>> concerning
>> the build system.  If Qt4 is still supported, I should file a bug report
>> concerning the above issue with angleDelta.
>> 
>> Which one is it ?
> 
> Given the status quo, the latter makes the most sense.
> 
> But as a followup to the previous thread, I did intend to, and still
> intend to, change the status quo. I intend to work on a patch to test
> exactly what I proposed, namely dropping the Qt 4 modules from configure
> and making QOpenGLWidget mandatory for the Qt graphics toolkit.
> 
> -- 
> mike
> 
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FWIW, as the one who introduced this new issue (and the previous one(s)), I
second Mike's idea to make QOpenGLWidget (or roughly Qt-5.5) mandatory in
Octave 6. 

Pantxo



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