Why the move to Qt5 ?

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Technologov
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Why the move to Qt5 ?

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As opposed to staying on Qt4 indefinitely ?
After all, apps written with MFC for Windows 95 do work perfectly on Windows 7 and 10! (maybe with a few changes for Unicode support and widgets required).

On Windows, it surely won't have any problems going forwards. (due to backwards compatible design)
On Linux... I dunno. Distros may stop shipping Qt4 in the near future, but if you use your own Qt4 (like you do on RHEL5 systems), then it doesn't matter.
Is there some actual advantage of Qt5 to Qt4 ?

I mean: this time could be used for more useful features, like improving Android guest support or Unattended Installs (improving and integrating my patch) or better seamless mode (with menu and notification integration)

Anyway, Thanks for your hard work,
-Technologov
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Re: Why the move to Qt5 ?

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The reasons should be obvious, the move is to improve the functions of newer ( not obsolete ) operating systems. For the old OSes that you want to run for nostalgia simply keep to an old version of VirtualBox.
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Re: Why the move to Qt5 ?

Post by frank »

Please also keep in mind that no security fixes are delivered for Qt4 anymore.
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