On 11 April 2017 at 11:22, Ville Voutilainen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 April 2017 at 10:30, Marc Mutz <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tuesday 11 April 2017 07:49:28 Tuukka Turunen wrote: >>> There has been a lot of discussion about this in the mailing lists, I think >>> the two ones below sum it up quite well. >> >> They sum up *your* POV well. But up to a few weeks ago, more fixes went into >> 5.8 QtBase than changes into 5.9, even though TQC personell was asked to >> ignore 5.8. >> >> You can close 5.8 on all other modules, if you wish, but I'd ask to keep it >> open on QtBase, which has a lively development going on in 5.8 to this day. > > > Here's an anecdote: this https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/189229/ > hasn't been merged > to 5.9, as far as I can see. I find it curious that bugfixes from two > weeks ago haven't trickled > into 5.9 from 5.8 yet. Such matters may well raise the bar for users > for working with 5.9 rather than > with 5.8.
To elaborate: I run a bleeding-edge compiler. It feels odd to me that the best branch to run it on is a non-bleeding-edge branch, it's quite the opposite. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
