Feature #1897
Port to QT6
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Description
QT5 (the basis of current quassel) will go out of maintenance and the successor QT6 is already there for a good while.
To have quassel alive in the future, a port to QT6 will be required as distros might drop QT5 and therefore Quassel, too.
There is a compatibility library (https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/6.8/6.8.1/submodules/qt5compat-everywhere-src-6.8.1.tar.xz) which might help getting Quassel go on QT6.
History
#1 Updated by Sputnick over 1 year ago
- Assignee set to Sputnick
I plan to do this within the next few months. Need to find the time for it, but I'm slowly gearing up to work on this.
#2 Updated by Moody over 1 year ago
thats great news. If i can be of any help for that case, tell me. (see us on #quassel and/or #quassel.de)
#3 Updated by johu over 1 year ago
In preparation for the Qt6 migration I have dropped the legacy webkit support.
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/624
#4 Updated by Sputnick over 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Assigned
#5 Updated by Sputnick over 1 year ago
- Target version changed from Some future release to 1.0.0
#6 Updated by tatsh about 1 year ago
Started here: https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/627 (yes it works)
#7 Updated by sanjyot011keer 6 days ago
Moody wrote:
QT5 (the basis of current quassel) will go out of maintenance and the successor QT6 is already there for a good while.
To have quassel alive in the future, a port to QT6 will be required as distros might drop QT5 and therefore Quassel, too.There is a compatibility https://www.myhdfs.dev library (https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/6.8/6.8.1/submodules/qt5compat-everywhere-src-6.8.1.tar.xz) which might help getting Quassel go on QT6.
A Qt6 port seems like a worthwhile investment before distributions start dropping Qt5 support. The Qt5 compatibility module could also make the transition much smoother and reduce the amount of code that needs to be changed.