On Wednesday 17 June 2015 08:33:50 Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Thiago Macieira > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Qt 5.5 would be ideal - but we'd need to support the old Qt CI system for > > longer. So we're targetting that *Qt 5.6* will be the first LTS release. > > Mind to elaborate? Why is the "old Qt CI" a requirement or a blocker > for a LTS release?
Because that would imply keeping it running for a "long term" and the team maintaining it would really like to turn it off ASAP, in favour of the new solution that is more manageable and should have fewer flaky tests. > In general: I don't feel comfortable with the idea of introducing > C++11 in our API, dropping support for a bunch of platforms, and make > /that/ a LTS release... Nor I, but the conditions don't allow us to do an LTS before that. There's simply not enough manpower available. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
