[Paraview] Dropping Qt 4 support from ParaView 5.5 onwards

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Great! Our official release binaries will indeed use Qt 5.9, but we
probably want to keep the required min version for building ParaVeiw
at 5.6 for reasons Dave mentioned.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 7:22 AM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> +1 for dropping 4
>
> Regarding 5.9 what distros/versions is it not yet readily available on? If
> nothing major, then +1 as well.
>
> On Jun 8, 2017 2:43 AM, "MicK7" <ard3ride at zoho.com> wrote:
>
> +1 for qt 5.9
>
> And thanks for the great job on 5.4 release.
>
> Mickael PHILIT
>
>
> On 06/06/2017 18:44, Michael Jackson wrote:
>>
>> +1.
>>  Also I would vote to jump all the way to Qt 5.9 since it is a LTS release
>> and you can stabilize on Qt 5.9 for the next 3 years at least where as Qt
>> 5.6 is only supported in a security bug fix from here on for another 2
>> years. I don't think Qt is going to add support for newer operating systems
>> so if something breaks on newer releases of macOS or Windows Qt made it
>> sound like they would not fix Qt 5.6
>>
>
>
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