Dear Jake, Unless app developers would like to drop their existing apps and rename/launch instead new apps, they're forced to keep compatibility with the very first iOS-version when their app was accepted to iTunes Store.
So, dropping iOS-6 is a not issue for me, but dropping iOS-7 - yes. jm2c Kind regards, Robert On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Petroules Jake < [email protected]> wrote: > We're raising the minimum OS X to 10.8 (2012). The iOS minimum is still 6 > (also 2012), but I wonder whether we should also raise that a version (or > even two) considering its uniquely rapid upgrade cycle (frequently upgraded > hardware, less user ability to opt out of software updates). > > Bumping it to iOS 8 would also allow us to stop making static builds and > thus gain support for App Extensions. > > Thoughts? Tor Arne? > -- > Jake Petroules - [email protected] > Consulting Services Engineer - The Qt Company > > From: Development <[email protected]> on behalf of > Turunen Tuukka <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 11:18 PM > To: John Layt <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards? > > > > Hi John, > > > > This item was discussed at Qt Contributor’s Summit, please see session > notes: http://wiki.qt.io/QtCS2015_LTS > > > > For compilers this is also documented to the Qt Base change log: > http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/dist/changes-5.5.1 > > > > For 5.6 the current list of supported platforms and compilers is the > following: http://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5.6.0-tools-and-versions (note that we > are working to add OS X 10.11 to CI and fully support it) > > > > The idea is that by making Qt 5.6 LTS, we gain more freedom to drop older > (non-c++11) compilers as well as older platforms from Qt 5.7 and subsequent > versions. Those who have such older platforms to support, are recommended > to stay with the LTS version for a while. This approach allows us to move > faster for new features planned for future Qt releases. > > > > For application developers the documentation is often the best source to > find the list of supported platforms: > http://doc.qt.io/QtSupportedPlatforms/index.html This has not yet been > updated to 5.6, but will be before the final release. > > > > Yours, > > > > Tuukka > > > > > > > > *From:* Development [mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *John Layt > *Sent:* keskiviikkona 30. joulukuuta 2015 20.43 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards? > > > > Hi, > > Can I just clarify what the minimum deployment platforms are for 5.7 > onwards? That is, the lowest version of each OS that the code must still > run on? Far as I can tell it's something like: > > Windows 7 (or Vista?) > > Windows Embedded Compact 2013 > > OSX 10.8 > > iOS 5.0? > > Android 4.1 (API Level 16)? > > RHEL 6.6 > > Ubuntu 11.10? > > There really should be a wiki page for this... > > > > Cheers! > > John. > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development > >
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