Qt6 support? about qdirstat HOT 7 CLOSED

In the very far future yes. That will then become QDirStat-2.0, I guess. But on the way to that one there may easily be a QDirStat-1.10, -1.11, ...; I simply don't know yet.

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Thanks for clarifying! :-)

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I don't even know how big the difference between Qt-5.x and Qt-6.x is. Some APIs might have slightly changed, some others some more.

But moving to a new major Qt version will probably cut off some older distros from QDirStat, and I'd like to avoid that for some more time to come. Right now I haven't seen a real benefit yet; but in all honesty, I also haven't looked very thoroughly.

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As for Gentoo, this should not be a problem, we have Qt6 ;-) But I have seen many projects, which just started to support Qt5 and Qt6, so you can just choose during build, which version against you want to compile. I guess, this is something, which could make sense here too instead of dropping Qt5 and going to Qt6 only.

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In theory yes, but that would mean a ton of #ifdefs everywhere, making the code ugly, awkward and hard to read. I kept it somewhat compatible to Qt-4.x for quite some time since a buddy of mine insists on using an ancient release that doesn't even Qt-5.x support. But if that breaks, that's just a matter of "too bad". ;-)

Old, but still maintained versions of business Linux can be a problem. SLE-12 SP5 is still out there (and it will probably get an SP6, if that one isn't out yet), and they have absolutely ancient versions of everything but the kernel and some other select components. I don't think they will get Qt-6.x anytime soon, but believe it or not, SLE-12 SPx still has a lot of life time maintenance years in it...

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