On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:37:09PM +0100, Olivier Goffart wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2015 11:17:51 Rafael Roquetto wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:32:45PM +0100, Olivier Goffart wrote: > > > On Friday 20 February 2015 11:15:32 BogDan wrote: > > > > I fully agree with you, but, sadly, I think it will not be possible in > > > > 5.x. > > > > > > We started supporting C++98 during the course of Qt 4.x. > > > We dropped MSVC 6, in Qt 4.5 (despite there was still people using it) and > > > were able to finally use member template functions for example and > > > deprecate qObjectFind and such. > > > > This works when there are alternatives. In the case of QNX, *if* this has > > the side effect of Qt not being able to be built against 6.6.0 (perhaps > > they will have a newer compiler until then, but I can't assume that), then > > you need to deprecate the entire platform. > > Yes. The same way we deprecated Mac OSX 10.6 during Qt 5.x lifetime, or > Windows 9x during Qt 4.x lifetime. > > My point is that there is no reason to say that this won't happen in Qt 5.x > lifetime.
Which is not ok. I got your point. But while it is reasonable to push users from Windows 9x or OS X 10.6, in the case of QNX, you will be pushing users away from Qt. In the case of QNX 6.5.0, one could even argue that they could update to 6.6.0 - something that is still not trivial at all. But you drop 6.6.0, you basically remove Qt from a giant slice of automotive, industrial and aerospacial markets. Let's bear this in mind before deciding to pull the plug. Cheers, Rafael > > -- > Olivier > > Woboq - Qt services and support - http://woboq.com - http://code.woboq.org > -- Rafael Roquetto | [email protected] | Software Engineer Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company Tel. Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322) KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions
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