Qt, Ubuntu, and pain
2020-09-12 by: Dan Lyke
From: Dan Lyke ------------------------------------------------------ Argh. So apparently Qt's done something weird with licensing, and now the packages in the Ubuntu repo are like 5.12 and to use 5.5 or better you either have to download their installer or build from source? Suuuuucks! Trying to figure out the best path forward for my open source audio player that uses Qt. Right now I'm trying to convince myself not to just rewrite the damned thing as an Electron app, especially since I need some native audio processing, but ugh.=============================================================== From: Billy ------------------------------------------------------ Not just an Ubuntu issue. https://www.osnews.com/story/131646/new-qt-releases-possibly-restricted-to-p= aying-customers-for-12-months-kde-not-particularly-happy/ Affects KDE pretty heavily. --b