[vtk-developers] VTK 6.0 - QT 5

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Andrew Maclean
<andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
> May I suggest that before code freeze occurs that support for QT5 be added
> in?
> The reason for this is that the latest release of Ubuntu (13.04) installs QT
> 5.0.1 by default and if upgrading, it removes QT 4.x.
>
> This will also have implications for ParaView.
>
> Let me know how I can help.
>
> I don't feel fully competent delving into the complexity of the CMake files
> in VTK! But now I have Ubuntu 13.04 installed I can test.
>
> One reference I found was an entry in Mantis:
> http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtk-developers/2012-February/010883.html which
> seems to suggest some header file changes need to be made in the QT code in
> VTK.
>
> This thread indicates that there has been a bit of activity in this area:
> http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/Build-vtk-5-10-1-againt-qt-5-0-1-td5719101.html
>
As Berk said, I think there are more changes needed and we are just
about to freeze. This is a far easier migration than 3 to 4, but would
probably require a few weeks. It would be surprising if Ubuntu were
not providing a facility to install Qt 4 and 5 (last I heard they
were), I think we are far from the last project that hasn't migrated
over yet.

It would be great to put some time aside to work on this after VTK 6
branches, as you point out more distros are moving to Qt 5 (although
many are ensuring that 4 and 5 can coexist on the same system).

Marcus