[Development] Updating the minimal supported version of libxcb

[Knoll Lars]

On 15/10/15 17:59, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On Thursday 15 October 2015 18:26:23 Александр Волков wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Currently Qt supports libxcb 1.5, which is very old (it was released on
>> December 3, 2009)
>> It complicates adding new bundled xcb libraries, because they have to be
>> checked
>> for compatibility with this old version and maybe patched.
>> 
>> Qt officially supports the following platforms that use libxcb:
>> OpenSuSE 13.1 (libxcb 1.9.1, xcb-proto 1.8)
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 (libxcb 1.9, xcb-proto 1.8)
>> Ubuntu 14.04 - 64bit (libxcb 1.10, xcb-proto 1.10)
>> 
>> What do you think about updating the minimal supported version of libxcb
>> to 1.9?
>
>Unless it's critical, let's do it only in 5.7.

Yes, I don’t know of larger issues that would require a change in 5.6. But
for 5.7 by all means go ahead and update the minimum requirement to 1.9.

Cheers,
Lars