[Interest] qt3D and qt5 status

[Sean Harmer]

On Tuesday 19 March 2013 09:20:02 BOUCARD Olivier wrote:
> The last commit from the repository says: "5.2 is the expected release
> version, so set it already."
> 
> We have to be a little more patient. ;-)

Apologies I've only just spotted this thread. This was discussed on the 
development@ list back in February. Please take a look at this mail:

http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-February/009853.html

Hopefully that explains where we are at and what the broad plans are.

Cheers,

Sean

> 
> Olivier Boucard.
> 
> >________________________________
> >
> > De : Alejandro Exojo <aexojo at modpow.es>
> >
> >À : Interest at qt-project.org
> >Envoyé le : Mardi 19 mars 2013 9h30
> >Objet : Re: [Interest] qt3D and qt5 status
> >
> >2013/3/10 qtnext <qtnext at gmail.com>:
> >> I wants to port an existing apps from Qt4 to Qt5. I suppose that all is
> >> easily portable, but I use qt3D c++ scenegraph to render my opengl stuff.
> >> It seems that qt3D is not included in qt5 trunk, but has anybody tryed
> >> to compile qt3D C++ with qt5 ? Does it works for basic feature ?
> >
> >I just want to point out the following post:
> >
> >http://www.kdab.com/kdab-contributions-to-qt-5-0-part-5/
> >
> >In which you can read: "For Qt 5.1, KDAB is additionally assuming
> >maintainership of the Qt3D and QtX11Extras modules."
> >
> >I don't know exactly if it will be considered stable enough in 5.1. I
> >see very little activity in the repository (last commit that seems to
> >modify actual code and not "just" buildsystem, license, typos, etc.,
> >seems to be from February 7th), but I don't know if that's any real
> >indication of anything or not.
> >
> >Let's hope for the best.
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