Qt Creator fails to build against Qt 5.2

[Timo Jyrinki]

I'm getting the following error message when trying to compile Qt Creator 2.8.1 (the current version in trusty) against Qt 5.2:

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In file included from /home/ubuntu/delete/qtcreator-2.8.1/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibrarywidget.cpp:34:0:
/home/ubuntu/delete/qtcreator-2.8.1/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/itemlibrary/itemlibrarymodel.h:36:45: fatal error: private/qd
eclarativelistmodel_p.h: No such file or directory
 #include <private/qdeclarativelistmodel_p.h>
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The rebuild is required, to get rid of the libqt5core5 dependency. Because of ABI break all Qt packages need a rebuild.

A rebuild could be placed into https://launchpad.net/~canonical-qt5-edgers/+archive/qt5-daily PPA.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Just a thought, since we are moving to Qt 5.2, why not also move to Qt creator 3.0 which came with Qt 5.2?

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Qt Creator 3.0 would need refactoring of the Ubuntu plugin, so at least as a first measure it'd be useful to have 2.8.1 compiling against Qt 5.2.

[Zoltan Balogh (bzoltan)]

I am afraid that making QtC 2.8.1 Qt 5.2 friendly would take a massive refactoring. QtC 2.8.1 is using private APIs way too much. Most of these places are in the qmlpuppet, qmlobserve, qmldump, qmldesigner modules.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Qt Creator 3.0 is in the test PPA https://launchpad.net/~canonical-qt5-edgers/+archive/qt5-beta2/+packages and packaging branch lp:~kubuntu-packagers/kubuntu-packaging/qtcreator