On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 6:34 AM, Turunen Tuukka < [email protected]> wrote:
The thing is that since the beginning of Qt 5 we have been constantly > adding things and not removing the parts that are less used (and > deprecated). Even though one might think it takes very little effort to > keep things around, the aggregate effort is significant. > > There are many great new things and improvements we could bring into Qt, > but now a lot of time goes into keeping old parts afloat. If someone needs > to use an old module, why not do it with a Qt version that supports it? > Same goes to platforms and compilers - it is not feasible to properly > support all upcoming and old versions. > > Break backwards compatibility promise, remove hard-to-maintain modules which have an alternative, introduce some fundamental code changes... It seems to me Qt 6 is perfectly justified :-? -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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