And the good news is that Fedora 41 does have a current libqt5pas AND a libqt6pas. And unlike Debian it uses the correct version numbering, not linked to the Lazarus release.
That is certainly progress. But, of course, there is bad news too.
libqt6pas in Fedora appears, to me, to have a minor problem (plus, of course the Wayland issues). The dev version, qt6pas-devel is listed as being for qt5 (not qt6), obviously a copy and paste error and most users will spot that. (Any Fedora users here who know how to report it ?)
dbannon@fedora41kde:~$ dnf search qt6pas-devel
...
Matched fields: name (exact)
qt6pas-devel.i686: Development files for qt5pas
qt6pas-devel.x86_64: Development files for qt5pas
So, now we can use Qt (FPC/Lazarus) apps "out of the box" with -
- Ubuntu 24.04 (and presumably U2410), Qt5 only.
- Debian Trixie for the brave. It has both Qt5 and Qt6. Sadly, Debian has chosen to link the Qt6Pas version number to the Lazarus version where they found it. But at least its better than the old one.
- Arch systems, Qt5 up to date. Sadly Qt6 is a year out of date, but does use correct version number.
- And now, Fedora 41, Qt5 and Qt6 - how good is that ?
Obviously, with all of the above, using Gnome or KDE, must work around Wayland with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb. Sigh ....
Davo
EDIT: updated Arch info
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