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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/29/2017 07:31 PM, Anton Gladky wrote:
> The question is, how long does Yade want to support Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,
> where QT5 version of libqglviewer does not exist. Another option is to
> provide backport of libqglviewer-qt5-dev for Ubuntu 14.04, document it
> as a mandatory package for Yade and drop Qt4 support completely.
Hi Anton,
I'm not sure I get all aspects of your question but I would tend to 
choose the energy-minimizing solution.
For binary packages (I guess it is your main question) I don't think it 
is worth it to support 14.04 if it needs more efforts. Backporting 
libqglviewer, typically, is a waste of time since we are in the tail of 
14.04. For the moment the 14.04 binary builds without problems, so let 
it be.
If in the futur some changes become painful because of Qt4 we can just 
drop 14.04 support at that point.
Would it be reasonable?

In my mind, this is not really related to the resurected comment. I 
found the comment more useful for people _compiling_ on 14.04 (and 
possibly on other exotic distros, clusters, etc.) as a pointer to a 
potential source of trouble.

Cheers

Bruno