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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] 2.6 branch planning and post-branch changes

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:20:37 -0700
On 3/14/18 3:03 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 1:41 PM, Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I plan on releasing 2.5.1 tomorrow and I've tentatively scheduled creating the 2.6 branch on April 2, followed by 2.6.0 on April 18.
>>
>> As discussed previously we'll drop support for Qt 4 and GTK+ in the master branch after master-2.6 is created. Unless there are strong objections I'd like to bump the minimum GLib version to 2.32.
> 
> Is there any reason to drop support for older versions of Qt 5 - which would mean dropping support for, at minimum, Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

Requiring 5.2 or later would let us remove most of our QT_VERSION_CHECKs.