2.4 plans (was: QRegExp is deprecated in qt6)

[Pavel Sanda]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 08:59:22PM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 3/2/23 17:28, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >Le 02/03/2023 ?? 23:10, Stephan Witt a écrit :
> >>Am 02.03.2023 um 22:44 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck
> >><rikiheck at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>>On 3/2/23 12:29, Stephan Witt wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>ATM, Qt6 is unusable on Mac because of bug 12641. :(
> >>>
> >>>Does this just mean you can't build with Qt6? Or is this a blocker for
> >>>release?
> >>
> >>No, this means I can build both with Qt5 or Qt6.
> >>But I don???t know how to fix the bug, so the release shouldn???t be
> >>done with Qt6.
> >>It would be a good move to switch to Qt6 with a major release of LyX.
> >>But if it is not possible it???s better to release it with Qt5.
> >
> >The plan is to keep both Qt5 et Qt6, anyway. But avoiding ifdefs is good.
> 
> OK, does it make sense to go ahead with RC1, then? Or would you prefer to
> wait and hope we make some progress on this bug?

Riki, what is your plan with translations/strings?

At certain moment we need to declare string(&feature) freeze so that
translators have time to
1) go through UI translation strings 
2) update manuals

This will take some time, we are in the order of 10^3 new strings, that
won't be done overnight.

I am currently going through all new strings and related new features
and sort of enjoy that I can still change them when I see something
unclear or wrong. But the freeze is needed at some moment, at it would
be good to have some estimate when... 

Pavel