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Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?

Yes
5 (83.3%)
No - I'm not interested in Qt6
0 (0%)
No - I'm waiting for an RPM
1 (16.7%)

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Paul Smedley

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Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« on: Today at 12:15:15 am »
Hi All - I'm interested to know how many people have tested my Qt6 builds. I've put a couple of options in there for 'No' but feel free to comment if there are other reasons for not testing.

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Re: Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« Reply #1 on: Today at 01:05:26 am »
Paul,

On my side this is simply a matter of lack of time after the end of work and return home. I feel like in order to do the appropriate job of the testing I would need to commit to the long-term process and not drop-out here and there. Right now that's simply not feasible.

Is there a chance that we might define a 'milestone' release that folks like myself could engage in?

Regardless, and I hope you know this, your efforts are greatly appreciated because there is no amount of $$$ (:-[) that can make up for the personal time you've invested into this!!!

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Re: Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« Reply #2 on: Today at 01:17:46 am »
Hi Paul

I had tested your Qt6 and I think it is going great. I just had a little confusion between the releases 6.2.4, 6.3.2, 6.4.3 because I would expect for you to only focus on the lastest version and try to improve that, but you are working on those three versions at the same time  ;D

I think you also answered you self on the poll. I think there are a group of users waiting for a release on RPM to solve the little complexity of adjusting the paths when testing Qt 6.

Your builds are awesome, and you did it on an interactive way to also tech and show your progress step by step.

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Paul Smedley

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Re: Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« Reply #3 on: Today at 01:34:37 am »
Hey Martin,

I had tested your Qt6 and I think it is going great. I just had a little confusion between the releases 6.2.4, 6.3.2, 6.4.3 because I would expect for you to only focus on the lastest version and try to improve that, but you are working on those three versions at the same time  ;D

Well the initial logic with 6.2.4 was that it was a Long Term Support version - except I didn't realise that after 12 months, the newer versions were commercial only for 12 months. Also, the 'delta' in the code was relatively short to 5.15. I wouldn't say I'm really working on 6.2.4 any more (other than recently dynamically linking the av1 video codec)

Stepping up to 6.3.x was supposed to be easy - except there are a few things not working.

6.4.x is the current main focus (until next week when 6.5.0 is released).

So whilst there have been 3 versions released, my hope is to get 6.4.x working the 'best' ASAP so that there will only be one version in development.

Hope this helps.

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Re: Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« Reply #4 on: Today at 03:27:16 am »
I've been testing, which is what lead me to build the xpdf on it.

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Re: Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« Reply #5 on: Today at 03:30:29 am »
I still need to get organised at my new address, setup my main OS/2 box and server before I do testing etc.
I do intent to install your QT6 builds.
I keep getting distracted driving from Perth-Melbourne-Perth etc, driven through Adelaide 4 times now in the past 13 months..
Cheers
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Re: Have you tested any of the new Qt 6 builds?
« Reply #6 on: Today at 05:09:17 am »
Hey Ian,,

I keep getting distracted driving from Perth-Melbourne-Perth etc, driven through Adelaide 4 times now in the past 13 months..

Next time you're passing through Adelaide, sing out. It would be good to catch up - I think last time was a Melbourne PCUG in 2002-2003 which happened to line up with some business travel.

Cheers,

Paul