[mythtv] Announcement: Master/0.28 is moving to QT 5.2

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 01/03/15 10:47, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> Within the next couple of weeks we will be switching the minimum QT version 
> from 4.8 to 5.2*
> 
> QT 4 goes End of Life at the end of this year and so we want our next release, 
> the one users will be using past this deadline to be built on QT 5. Having 
> access to some of the features of QT 5 is also a nice benefit.
> 
> *5.2 was selected as the minimum version as this is the lowest version offered 
> by all distros we surveyed. We won't rule out a move to a more recent version, 
> i.e. 5.4 which is already available for most distros sometime before the 
> release.
> 
> We're on the hunt for bugs caused by the switch to QT 5 and this is something 
> you can help us with. So please make sure you're ready for the switch, the 
> earlier you start the transition to QT 5 the smoother the process will be.
> 

Please note, that running 0.27 with Qt5 is NOT supported.
Consider it a tech preview. Some stuff works, quite a lot doesn't

We have no plans to port the changes in master back to 0.27 as
they are quite extensive.


Regards
Stuart Auchterlonie