Drop QT4 from master

[Kornel Benko]

Am Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:00:26 +0100
schrieb Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org>:

> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 06:51:42PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > > So the question is: Can we drop support for QT4 in master?
> > > Or has someone a better sollution?
> > >  
> > 
> > Given that Qt 6 is now out, and that Qt 4 has been unmaintained for roughly
> > five years (
> > https://www.qt.io/blog/2014/11/27/qt-4-8-x-support-to-be-extended-for-another-year),
> > it would make sense.  
> 
> I still compile with qt4 under one of my systems and we IIRC had exactly this debate
> with Kornel couple months back.
> The agreement was that dropping qt4 support just before the end of a release cycle
> is not wise, given that the whole 2.4.x release could work on old systems then.
> 
> But this position gets weaker as we do not seem to get closer to the actual release, I
> know.
> 
> Pavel

Committed a version which compiles also for QT4 at f7772849.
Not nice, because of the many '#ifdef's, but at least nothing changes for QT4.

	Kornel
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