[Interest] Regarding selection of stable version of Qt

[Nate Rogers]

I am working on a new development project with a custom board that uses a TI am335x.  We use Qt5.2.1 and it works great.  When we started we were using 4.7 but switched over to 5.2.1 to get all the good new features.  I personally would not recommend Qt 4.x if Qt 5.x is an option.  Good luck!

Nate



On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 5:12 AM, Jha Sonakumar <Sona.Jha at TechMahindra.com> wrote:
Hi all,
     I have to use TI arm335x board which is having gcc 4.7.3
     It supports  Opengl es 2.0

Regards
Sona

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From: interest-bounces+sona.jha=techmahindra.com at qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+sona.jha=techmahindra.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Bo Thorsen
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 12:45 PM
To: interest at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Regarding selection of stable version of Qt

Den 23-12-2014 kl. 05:27 skrev Jha Sonakumar:
>      Could you please guide me about selection of *Qt Version(4.x 
> *or*5.x)?*
>
>      Few people say that *Qt 4.7.1* is only stable and proven version, 
> please guide me in this regard.
>
>     If possible ,let me know any reference which I can refer to them.
> There will be  Serial port communication and application is to be 
> ported on *TI board*.

Hi Sonakumar,

Qt 4.7.1 is stable, but that's about the only good thing with it. 
Whoever is saying this needs to update their views.

If you want to stay with the 4.7 line, you should at least move to 4.7.4, as this fixes several security problems.

Personally, I would not consider the Qt 4 line for a new project. It's a dead end, and only 4.8 receives some security fixes.

If you need a stable line, I would suggest the latest Qt 5.3 release.

"TI board" says nothing. There are so many that it's impossible to say if Qt supports it or not. But very few architectures have been dropped since 4.7, so there's a very good chance it will be supported. Unless you have a very old C++ compiler for the board.

I hope this helps,

Bo Thorsen,
Director, Viking Software.

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