Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

[mason]

Sorry, forgot to copy the list.

On 12/28, address@hidden wrote:
> On 12/28, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Ubuntu 16.04 is a LTS release with (IIRC) five years of support. So it
> > is not unreasonable for someone to use it. However, we (Frescobaldi)
> > seem to have been hit by this five-year term since we're dealing with
> > a change in the Qt framework that has phased out support for a module
> > over (again, IIRC) 2-3 years. So all *current* Linux distributions
> > ship with a Qt version that only includes QtWebEngine and not QtWebKit
> > anymore. There has been a range of Qt versions including both.
> >
> > The question is whether a project like Frescobaldi can reasonably be
> > expected to actively support such an old OS, even if it's LTS. I'd
> > assume that lTS guarantees you security patches but not that every new
> > software will run.
> 
> Right, LTS means continued security updates (only for packages in the
> Main repository, in Ubuntu's case), but three years into the release
> users cannot expect to run bleeding edge software without ever running
> into dependency issues.  It seems that most developers make an effort to
> support Ubuntu's current stable release (although Kdenlive does not,
> support Bionic, also due to Qt dependencies), but it is common for large
> projects not to support the previous stable release.
> 
> > Before upgrading to a newer OS it might be an option to use a current
> > Qt/PyQt downloaded or compiled from somewhere. @Simon you could do us
> > a huge favor by exploring that possibility and providing information
> > about it for the Wiki.
> 
> I have not tested this, but these PPAs[1] install newer versions of Qt
> to /opt, so that they do not conflict with the version of Qt already on
> the system.  This may be sufficient for Frescobaldi.
> 
> Mason
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~beineri

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