Hello List! What would be the pros and cons of upgrading from Qt 4 to Qt 5? In particular, are there any good reasons not to do so?
I am considering upgrading various things I use -- compilers, libraries, etc. (My main motivation is to use more of the c++11 features by running gcc with "-std=c++11", but I will ask about that in particular in separate post.) I am using Qt 4, and have no particular reason to change, but if I am going to go through the work of this upgrade process, it would seem to make sense to upgrade to the "latest and greatest" version of Qt, unless there is some compelling reason not to. I use Qt for very basic desktop applications. There are a lot of things I am not using (qml, webkit, arthur, and dbus come to mind). I do use qwt (currently version 6.0.1, but I will ask about qwt in particular in a separate post). I am currently using mingw-w64 (one of Ruben's builds), and would stick with that unless there were good reason to change. For what I've been doing I haven't felt that is would be worth the bother to upgrade, but since I'll be rebuilding everything anyway, maybe now is the time. Are there any big hassles I should expect? I don't mind doing some limited porting work, but I wouldn't want to have to deal with major re-writes. Any advice on the Qt 4 --> 5 transition would be greatly appreciated. K. Frank _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
