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[Anton Gladky]

Hi Michael,

short update in continuation of our talk. It seems
QWT in experimental is built against Qt5 [1], so we
can theoretically try to push this transition slowly.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/qwt

Best regards

Anton


2015-08-24 11:33 GMT+02:00 Michael Hanke <mih at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:13:19AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> do you seen any chance to port python-mne to vtk6.  It seems we will not
>> manage to keep two vtk versions alive in this transition.  Please port
>> python-mne as soon as possible.
>
> Quick feedback: At Debconf I talked with Anton Gladky, who maintains
> VTK, about this. Most likely, we will have to keep VTK5 for a while.
> One reason is the Qt5 issue. VTK6 will force Qt5 and many tools are not
> yet in shape for that.
>
> While porting Qt4 -> Qt5 is much easier than Qt3 -> Qt4, libraries are
> still an issue. For example, libqwt still has no Qt5 port. Consequently,
> packages like fslview cannot transition to VTK6 at this point.
>
> Michael