[Qt-creator] Bumping minimum Qt version needed to build Qt Creator to Qt 5.14

[Orgad Shaneh]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 10:24 AM Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:

>
>
> > On Jun 9, 2020, at 09:06, Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 9, 2020, at 07:09, Orgad Shaneh <orgads at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:02 AM André Pönitz <apoenitz at t-online.de>
> wrote:
> >> Short version:
> >>
> >> We'd like to bump the minimum Qt version needed to build Qt Creator
> itself
> >> to Qt 5.14 starting with the upcoming Qt Creator 4.13 (the current
> 'master'
> >> branch in the repo)
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Debian sid still ships 5.12.5. Qt 5.14 is currently in the experimental
> repository.
> >>
> >> Same goes for Ubuntu. 20.04 ships 5.12.8, and 5.14 is available only on
> 20.10.
> >>
> >> I'd rather wait for 5.14 to land on the major distributions before
> raising the required version.
> >>
> >> - Orgad
> >
> > The released Ubuntu and Debian distributions usually do not upgrade Qt
> Creator. Looks like Debian even ships a pretty outdated Qt 5.12...
> > So the affected group would be people who build Qt Creator themselves.
> > IMO it is not a big issue to require a newer Qt version for that?
>

I prefer to use the system's Qt, and not install binaries or compile from
source. Give them some time to upgrade.

> On the other hand branching of Qt Creator 4.13 is only 3 weeks away, so
> doing that requirement bump for 4.14 wouldn’t delay us that much.
>
> And I’d say for Qt Creator 4.14 we then need to do what we need to do to
> be able to build with Qt 5 and 6, even if that means Qt 5.15 as the minimum
> requirement.


Agreed.

- Orgad
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