2.4.0 plan for #12215 [LyX crashes with async processes (Qt6 only)] ?

[Thibaut Cuvelier]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2022, 11:45 Pavel Sanda, <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 03:16:05PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > If no one fixes it in time, shall we postpone 2.4.0
>
> No, I wouldn't do that.
>
> > or proceed with 2.4.0 and state that Qt6 is not officially supported
> because of #12215?
>
> I see three options:
> 1) we don't support QT6 and break during ./configure if detected
> 2) we allow Qt6 with --enable-stdlib-debug
> 3) we allow Qt6 but forcing single thread only.
>
> I don't have clear winner between these three.
>

I think that not supporting Qt 6 is the worst option, especially as it may
create problems with package managers if they want to switch to Qt 6 for
any reason. Requiring a parameter to be set at configure time to allow Qt 6
acknowledging the potential problems would be acceptable, in my opinion.

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