Disable building against Qt4 #8588

1. 
   jonasschnelli commented at 8:24 AM on August 25, 2016: contributor

   Maintaining compatibility with Qt4 seems to be "lost efforts".

   We should disable the --with-gui=qt4 option and also disable the auto-detect of qt4 in bitcoin_qt.m4.

2. jonasschnelli added the label GUI on Aug 25, 2016
3. jonasschnelli added this to the milestone 0.14.0 on Aug 25, 2016
4. jonasschnelli assigned theuni on Aug 25, 2016
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   MarcoFalke commented at 8:42 AM on August 25, 2016: member

   related issue: #8263

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   MarcoFalke commented at 9:47 AM on August 25, 2016: member

   Conclusion:

   jonasschnelli:  If someone really wants to compile against qt4, we could keep --with-gui=qt4 but disable the autodetect
   wumpus:  jonasschnelli: good idea; you can still force using it if you know what you're doing, but it wil never choose it by default
   luke-jr:  jonasschnelli: that sounds reasonable; maybe a message to make noises if they want Qt4 support to stay?
   
   

7. 
   laanwj commented at 11:39 AM on September 21, 2016: member

   So the conclusion here is to stop auto-detecting qt4, but allow it to be chosen?

   Yea, maybe, though that means we can still get complaints that qt4 doesn't work. That meeting was a month ago and I've seen zero pull requests fixing qt4 issues.

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   luke-jr commented at 7:23 PM on September 21, 2016: member

   So the conclusion here is to stop auto-detecting qt4, but allow it to be chosen?

   IIRC yes.

   That meeting was a month ago and I've seen zero pull requests fixing qt4 issues.

   I found no issues when testing with Qt4. It just works.

9. 
   laanwj commented at 2:27 AM on September 22, 2016: member

   So #8586 (the tab switching problem that makes qt4 unusable) was false alarm? Okay, strange.

10. 
    laanwj commented at 2:28 AM on September 22, 2016: member

    Closing this then in favor of #8263, apparently there is no immediate problem, one issue for Qt4 EOL should be enough.

11. laanwj closed this on Sep 22, 2016

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12. 
    luke-jr commented at 3:56 AM on September 22, 2016: member

    Right, neither I nor the original reporter could reproduce the problem in #8586

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