[osg-users] Linux packaging: Qt 4 vs 5

[Robert Osfield]

Hi Andre,

On 20 July 2016 at 07:47, Andre Normann <andre.normann at gmail.com> wrote:
> but there is one problem with OpenThreads when moving osgQt out of the core
> OSG. To get threading working with Qt5, I need the Qt version of
> OpenThreads. When you do not whant to have any dependence to Qt in the core
> OSG library, then we also need to drop the support of Qt inside OpenThreads.

The need for Qt to use it's own threading library is a major flaw of
Qt5 and forces you to jump through ridiculous hoops to work with it.
It's bad design from a vendor that's entirely trapped in a bubble of
controlling everything rather than provided genuine interoperability.

We'd need to move the qt thread path out of the OSG and into the
osgQt4/5 libraries.  This version of OpenThreads would need to built
with a Qt specific library name if linux distributors are to use it.

This is one of the issues why Qt doesn't belong in the core OSG distribution.

Robert.