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Merge #13458: gui: Drop qt4 support
af6ac3b677 doc: Remove mention of Qt4 from build docs (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
462c71f71b test: Update travis to not test Qt4 anymore (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
907f73bbc5 gui: Remove QT_VERSION fallbacks for Qt < 5 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
bad068ad9f build: Build system changes to support only Qt5 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)

Pull request description:

  Implements #8263.

  Qt4.x has been EOL since 2015, and at least Gentoo has, or is going to drop support for it. I wouldn't be surprised if other Linux distributions follow.

  This removes Qt4 detection from the build system, as well as removes all Qt4 fallbacks from the code. Turns out there's more than I expected: this is going to make maintenance of the GUI code, as well as adding new features significantly easier.

  (I know there's still some references left to qt4 in RPM and Debian build script, but I don't have the knowledge how to fix them)

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2018-06-24 16:02:37 +02:00
.github Make default issue text all comments to make issues more readable 2017-11-16 11:50:56 -05:00
.tx tx: Update transifex slug for 0.16 2018-01-24 16:35:40 +01:00
build-aux/m4 build: Build system changes to support only Qt5 2018-06-13 18:15:47 +02:00
contrib Merge #13454: Make sure LC_ALL=C is set in all shell scripts 2018-06-18 13:18:12 +02:00
depends Rename “OS X” to the newer “macOS” convention 2018-06-04 13:04:04 +02:00
doc Merge #13458: gui: Drop qt4 support 2018-06-24 16:02:37 +02:00
share Merge #13454: Make sure LC_ALL=C is set in all shell scripts 2018-06-18 13:18:12 +02:00
src Merge #13458: gui: Drop qt4 support 2018-06-24 16:02:37 +02:00
test Merge #13512: [qa] mininode: Expose connection state through is_connected 2018-06-23 19:29:45 -04:00
.gitattributes Separate protocol versioning from clientversion 2014-10-29 00:24:40 -04:00
.gitignore [build] .gitignore: add QT Creator artifacts 2017-12-22 12:37:00 +01:00
.travis.yml Merge #13458: gui: Drop qt4 support 2018-06-24 16:02:37 +02:00
autogen.sh Add "export LC_ALL=C" to all shell scripts 2018-06-14 15:27:52 +02:00
configure.ac build: Build system changes to support only Qt5 2018-06-13 18:15:47 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Docs: Improve readability of "Squashing commits" 2018-06-17 10:47:50 +02:00
COPYING [Trivial] Update license year range to 2018 2018-01-01 04:33:09 +09:00
INSTALL.md Update INSTALL landing redirection notice for build instructions. 2016-10-06 12:27:23 +13:00
libbitcoinconsensus.pc.in Unify package name to as few places as possible without major changes 2015-12-14 02:11:10 +00:00
Makefile.am Avoid concurrency issue 2018-06-14 19:43:12 +00:00
README.md Rename “OS X” to the newer “macOS” convention 2018-06-04 13:04:04 +02:00

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