On 1/5/2021 1:02 PM, Adam Light wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 7:56 AM Volker Hilsheimer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Apart from that: is Qt 5.15.2 really so broken that people can’t use
it without getting more patches?
I can't speak to 5.15 as we decided not to upgrade since it's not a real
LTS release (we do not believe we are eligible to purchase a commercial
license), but the minor fixes that come later in LTS releases (5.9 and
5.12) have often fixed problems our users have reported in our
application, particularly on macOS. Due to behavior changes in different
Qt minor versions (again, primarily on macOS), we typically change the
Qt minor version only when we release a new major version of our
application (~every 2-3 years).
LTS releases have been critical in our successful use of Qt, and I am
not sure what will happen moving forward.
Adam
Hear, hear. Stuck on 5.12 here.
Working on OS projects, commercial is not even an option, and resources
(e.g. for testing/fixing on every new Qt release) are very limited
(read: one person often does everything). E.g. testing one app on 5.14.1
yielded 3 breaking Qt issues which had to be fixed upstream, and mostly
didn't make it into .2 either. LTS (after like a .3 or so update) is the
only way to go IMHO, the others are for testing/playing.
I'm so sick of "scheduled releases come hell or high water" in the
programming world (in general, not just Qt). The quality is (usually)
crap. Once upon a time this release quality was called
Alpha/Beta/Preview/NFP (not for production). Qt6 has literally been
called as being "primarily" for testing/feedback. That's a new major
release now? /further rant aborted
Sorry, I'm only passionate about it because I love what Qt does and I
love when it does it well and consistently. Everyone who's helped make
it that way is my hero, thank you!
-Max
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