Qt5 progress

Here's how it is at present:

- qmake built
- command line tools built
- corelib building this very minue

...more to follow.

Great!

I will follow this thread with a lot of attention.

Phonon, WebKit with html5 support a lot of big things !

Courage and, still, congrats.

wow!

Simply awesome !
As Guillaume said this will be a very interesting thread

Niceeee !!!!!!!!!!

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It already is

Great work :)

I think it's time for another donation...

Wow! Have a few days break at least!

Very nice

I was wondering why this news, then I realised it was Qt*5* (doh).

Now the stupid question: What can we do with Qt5, that we couldn't be Qt4.7 ? (I know it's more modern, but what needs it?)

If Alfkil succeed to build Qt5 WebKit, we can hope to have html5 support.
Could be very nice !

@ChrisH

Video on youtube showing new features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhWS_bN-T3k#t=143

This is *awesome* news!!

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The biggest difference as a developer is the way of connecting signals and slots has changed whereas before it was

connect (signal_object, SIGNAL (...), slot_object, SLOT (....))

in Qt5 it's

connect (signal_object, SignalClass :: SignalFunction, slot_object, SlotClass :: SlotFunction);

It feels quicker than Qt4 (on Windows at least). This will definitely make the app I'm developing way easier to release on the Amiga as I'd already converted all of the signal/slot to the new style

billy

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Everybody writing open source stuff using Qt seems to be migrating to it. Apparently it's structured better so the platform dependent bits are easy to maintain through updates, so Qt 5.1 etc should be a doddle and we can stay up-to-date.

@alfkil - Please can you ensure it is possible to install Qt5 alongside Qt 4.7.

Progress:

Apparently most of the system specific stuff has been located in plugins, and so I can pretty much build anything I like in the whole package, but of course I can't run anything, because I haven't done the amiga specific plugins. Everything seems nicely located, but I bet there are some caveats comming up. Should be possible to do before Christmas, though (fingers crossed, not forgetting to never promise anything before the bear has been located, shot, cut into pieces and eaten...).

Alfkil, take your time, it's not a Grand Prix!
The important is the final result, not the timeline and i'm sure you will got the best result without any internal or external pression

Meantime we can continue our testing on the current 4.7.0, there are so many great things to test and use that we can enjoy it for years !

Just a curiosity: what version of "Qt5" are you porting right now ?

Recently, at the end of August a new 5.1.1 was released and according to the comment worldwide it seems pretty stable release

Keep it up!

Yes, as Samir said, take your time. We still have a lot of things to do or port with the 4.7

What about the bugs on 4.7, will you continue to release QuickFix or will you wait for Qt5 to fix all little problems that we are discovering in the beta-test thread ?

@zzd10h

Of course I will continue to produce quickfixes for Qt4.7 as issues come in and as time allows. If there is some pressing issue, please be a little persistent about it, since I tend to forget what has been written at what time etc. I still have a list that samo79 has written, but there might of course be other things in orbit.

@Chris

I could simply make Qt5 reference a qt5: assign instead of qt:. That should be easy to do.