Qt5

[José Fonseca]

FYI, I've finally merged the qt5 branch.

Jose

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:50 PM, José Fonseca <jose.r.fonseca at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great.  Before I merge Qt5 I'll tag a new release, and then refer to it
> from INSTALL.markdown.
>
> This release will be the last with Qt4 support.   And probably it will be
> the last with support for tracing on Windows XP, as leveraging support for
> __declspec(thread) TLS support in DLLs, which was introduced with Vista,
> would simplify the code and probably speed up runtime performance too. And
> given that Microsoft has stopped supporting XP I don't think it makes sense
> for us to keep jumping through hoops to support it.
>
> We can probably keep support for replaying on XP longer without much
> effort, as XP supports __declspec(thread) TLS in .EXEs.
>
> If anybody thinks differently let me know.
>
> Jose
>
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Lawrence Love <lawlove at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the consideration (I've been away for a few weeks). I'm on
>> debian
>> and Qt 5 is available. I just now installed it and rebuilt with all my
>> unsubmitted
>> gui patches and everything looks good.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Larry
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Alexander Monakov <amonakov at ispras.ru>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 6 May 2014, José Fonseca wrote:
>>>
>>> > Unless there are concerns/objections I'll merge this one of these days.
>>>
>>> No objection, but a slight concern: Lawrence (CC'ed) contributed some GUI
>>> patches recently, I suppose it would be nice to ask if installing Qt 5
>>> is not
>>> a problem for him (qt5 is not available in every distro yet).
>>>
>>> Another concern is that some of the users might be running old/stable/lts
>>> branches of distributions such as Debian stable or Ubuntu 12.04; such
>>> users
>>> will be unable to build the GUI after the merge.  Perhaps the README
>>> could be
>>> amended with a brief notice that in such situation people can checkout an
>>> older revision (e.g. the 5.0 tag) and build that instead of master?
>>>
>>> Alexander
>>
>>
>>
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