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

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Op 14-11-2022 om 13:46 schreef Thibaut Cuvelier:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2022, 11:45 Pavel Sanda, <sanda at lyx.org 
> <mailto: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.
> 
As maintainer of the openSUSE packages I would like to be able to build 
with Qt6 when KDE Plasma 6 will be released.

https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6

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