Re: [Plplot-devel] Is Qt5 supported?

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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE: 12px"><div>Thanks Alan.&nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm willing to give it a try. &nbsp;I think the migration on the Qt-side shouldn't be much more than changing include names and the .PRO file, if you have one.</div><div><br /></div><div>For my setup, I've compiled Qt5 myself and have placed it in /opt.</div><div><br /></div><div>How can I get PLplot to find this custom Qt installation? &nbsp;Is there an environment variable or cmake switch?</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div style="border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;margin:5px 0px;"></div><span style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 03/10/14, <span>Alan W. Irwin&lt;ir...@be...&gt;</span> wrote:</span><div>&nbsp;</div><div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 2014-03-10 16:38-0500 RM wrote:<br /><br />&gt; Despite searching, I couldn't find any information on this so I'll ask here -- Will PLplot compile against Qt 5.x?<br />&gt; <br />&gt; ln running cmake on PLplot 5.10.0, I see a number of references to &quot;Qt4&quot;.<br />&gt; <br />&gt; Can PLplot be made to work/compile with Qt5?<br /><br />Not sure.<br /><br />&gt; If not, is that capability on the roadmap?<br /><br />We don't have an offical roadmap, but, yes, that is an obvious next<br />step for one of our best and most well-supported device drivers.  Qt5<br />is not available for Debian stable (the platform I run), but it is<br />available for Debian testing (what will turn into the next Debian<br />stable release) and other cutting-edge Linux versons so I agree it<br />would be a good idea for us to get ready for it.<br /><br />Currently I have no idea whether the API changes between Qt4 and Qt5<br />affect us or not (see the first answer).  According to<br />&lt;<a class="parsedLink" href="http://qt-project.org/wiki/Transition_from_Qt_4.x_to_Qt5" target="_blank">http://qt-project.org/wiki/Transition_from_Qt_4.x_to_Qt5</a>&gt; the<br />differences should not be huge.  So by all means give Qt5 a<br />try (assuming you have access to it).  If it works, fine. If not, we<br />would be most interested in any patch you implement to make PLplot<br />build and run without issues against Qt5.<br /><br />Alan<br />__________________________<br />Alan W. Irwin<br /><br />Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,<br />University of Victoria (astro<a class="parsedLink" href="http://www.phys.uvic.ca" target="_blank">www.phys.uvic.ca</a>).<br /><br />Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state<br />implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time<br />Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting<br />software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project<br />(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);<br />and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).<br />__________________________<br /><br />Linux-powered Science<br />__________________________<br /></div></div>