[Interest] Upgrade to Qt 5 -- pros and cons?

Zenon Szalata zms at slac.stanford.edu
Sat Mar 23 00:09:34 CET 2013


I don't think that qwt 6.1 requires QT 5.  I have been using it with QT 
4.8 for a while now.
Zen

On 03/22/13 15:58, K. Frank wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:41 PM, K. Frank <kfrank29.c at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello List!
>>
>> What would be the pros and cons of upgrading from Qt 4 to Qt 5?  In
>> particular, are there any good reasons not to do so?
>> ...
> Thanks to everyone for the feedback.  I think I will move to Qt 5
> when I upgrade.
>
> But it's interesting that nobody really put forth any functional benefits
> of Qt 5 in the widget / desktop space.
>
> (The one exception was the statement that qwt 6.1 has a number of
> new features and qwt 6.1 requires Qt 5.  But that's qwt-specific and
> was on another thread.)
>
> Any takers?  What goodies do I get if I upgrade to Qt 5?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> K. Frank
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