Support for QT5

[vrguru]

I see that qtlua only support QT4.8 or lower? Is there a plan for supporting later QT versions?
For example, QT4.8 only comes in precompiled versions for vs2010 which is...old.

[leonbottou]

To be exact, it should be ported to both Qt5 and recent versions of lua.
I just have a hard time finding the time to do it.

It would be go to estimate how many people use qtlua these days...

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From: vrguru [email protected]
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Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 3:03 AM
To: torch/qtlua [email protected]
Subject: [qtlua] Support for QT5 (#19)

I see that qtlua only support QT4.8 or lower? Is there a plan for supporting later QT versions?
For example, QT4.8 only comes in precompiled versions for vs2010 which is...old.

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[soumith]

Indeed, it's a humongous effort with little benefit in terms of adoption.

[darmie]

I need qtLua badly, but most of other things my project would depend on need qt5 or higher.

[wrq]

If this could support QT5, then it would be possible to use Lua to make SailfishOS smartphone apps.

I mean, there's obviously more to it than that, but that's one of the big obstacles.

[floringogianu]

QT4 will most likely not be supported anymore on macOS Sierra, see Homebrew/homebrew-core#5216 . Only QT5 from this point onwards.

[zhangxiangxiao]

I use this a lot. I do not like web-based UI stuff. But I am fine with staying with Qt 4.8 as well.

[farleylai]

Qt is definitely a way to cross-platform application development and Qt5 evolves into a nearly full-stack application framework. With Torch, it would be made easier to develop full-fledged AI enabled applications. Perhaps most of the users are research based and the industry either integrates with their own proprietary extension or simply waits for the new updates.