[scribus] Scribus 1.5.0svn is now Qt5 only

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:45:34 +0200
ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

> hi
> 
> > On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:29:15 -0400
> > Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 09/02/2013 07:35 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > > > On 09/02/2013 06:07 PM, Craig Bradney wrote:
> > > >> Hi
> > > >>
> > > >> As of tonight, Scribus 1.5.0+ will only be supported with Qt5.
> > > >> We have had to find some workarounds
> > > >> for some issues, and these will be fixed over time, however Qt5
> > > >> will bring a number of features and
> > > >> improvements on the back end we require. Primarily, the new Qt
> > > >> Quick controls should offer us the
> > > >> ability to rewrite the Properties Palette with Qt's new XML
> > > >> based GUI design functionality. There's
> > > >> a lot more however that's a big one to note.
> > > >>
> > > >> For anyone developing or building from source, ensure you
> > > >> update your Qt installation to 5.x.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > > When I run 'yum list qt5*', I get:
> 
> fyi (plural): on debian testing you probably can't yet compile scribus
> with qt 5.
> 
> but i've been told that it's coming soon...
> 
> no chance to get the qt 5 packages (without compiling them by
> yourself) on debian stable.
> 
> on unstable it may or may not work.
> 
> ciao
> a.l.e
> 
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My favorite distro since the 1990's is Slackware. Qt5 is not even on the
RADAR yet. So I saved my latest working copy of Scribus 1.5.0 (Sept
3). It looks like I will be using that copy for a long, long, time.

Is there a Linux distro that comes with Qt5 as standard or as an option?
The improvements in Qt5 are not much use if most of us can't use 1.5.0
any more. 
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