On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:03:43PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote: > Since we're talking about macOS 10.11 and I came across the Windows support > lifetime pages, I'm posting this for future reference. > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet > > Windows 7 ends its Extended Support lifecycle on January 14, 2020, roughly a > year and a half from now. If we keep our current release cycle, the current > release at that time will be 5.14. Or, put differently, Windows 7 will be out > of support when 5.15 launches. > > We may want to drop support for it in one of those two releases. We should > announce we're doing so one year before the fact. So if we'd like to drop in > 5.14, we should include the announcement in the 5.12 changelog.
What exactly does Qt gain by dropping Windows 7 compatibility? "Being out of support by Microsoft" seems to be for quite a few people a rather unimportant line of reasoning in comparison to having to submit to Windows 10-style forced system upgrades and snooping on user activities. Andre' _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
