[RQt-devel] qtbase supports (and requires) Qt5

[Yihui Xie]

I'm interested in testing but have not got time for it yet (if anyone
knows how to build Qt5 on OS X Mavericks using homebrew, please let me
know). BTW, I suggest at least add a tag to the commit where the
support for Qt4 went away, since it is not trivial yet to install
Qt5.2 beta under OS X and Linux.

Regards,
Yihui
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Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
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On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> Has anyone managed to test this independently?
> Maybe test cranvas?
>
> I'd like to push it out to CRAN, because they want some stuff fixed anyway.
> Could always release off a Qt4 branch, but it would be good to get this out.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com> wrote:
>>
>> I should have mentioned that I merged Kaiser's pull request for the event
>> loop on Windows.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just pushed some changes to qtbase that tie us to Qt5, specifically Qt
>>> 5.2 beta 1 (we rely on some bug fixes). There are no MinGW win64 binaries
>>> available for betas apparently, so we'll need to wait (release currently
>>> scheduled for early December) to get that working, unless someone is brave
>>> enough to make custom binaries.
>>>
>>> I had to rewrite the MOC support, because the implementation completely
>>> changed for Qt5. I've tested custom signals and they seem to work. Still
>>> need to test slots and properties.
>>>
>>> The qtpaint package will probably require some major changes, since the
>>> Qt OpenGL API has changed dramatically.
>>>
>>> Michael