Re: dropping QT4 support

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/4/19 10:37 AM, Rik wrote:
> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > We discussed dropping support for Qt4 back in March and June of this 
> > year.  I think most of us agreed that it was a good idea but we 
> > haven't followed through.
> >
> > If we agree that this is the right move for 6.1, then I'm willing to 
> > do most or all of the work to fix the configure script and start 
> > updating the sources immediately.  If we delay, I think we will have 
> > to wait until after the 6.1 release as this is a fairly big change so 
> > deserves sufficient time for testing.
>
> No objection.  The last Qt4 release was December, 2011 or approximately 
> 8 years ago.  Even most long-term release distributions provide only 3 
> or 5 years support, so the number of users for Octave who require this 
> feature is already very small.

I thought I would have time to work on this issue by now but all my 
spare moments disappeared.  So for version 6 I think it is best to keep 
support for Qt4 in the sources but consider it unsupported.  Then we can 
move forward with removing support for it early in the version 7 
development cycle.

jwe