El dissabte, 30 de novembre del 2024, a les 22:04:19 (Hora estàndard del Centre d’Europa), Ingo Klöcker va escriure: > On Samstag, 30. November 2024 11:51:51 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Albert > > Astals Cid wrote: > > El dissabte, 30 de novembre del 2024, a les 4:57:10 (Hora estàndard del > > Centre > > > > d’Europa), Ben Cooksley va escriure: > > > HI all, > > > > > > This past week or so i've been dealing with a number of issues relating > > > to > > > a handful of still Qt 5 based projects trying to make use of updated > > > dependencies. These issues have revealed that the level of support for > > > Qt > > > 5 > > > as a platform in general is now subject to a significant degree of > > > bit-rot. > > > As such, we need to set a point at which we consider Qt 5 to no longer > > > be > > > supported. > > > > > > To start I would like to remove support for all CD builds (Windows, > > > Appimage, macOS) as well as CI support for Windows. There is already a > > > general view in Craft that Qt 5 is unmaintained and this removal simply > > > reflects that. > > > > If the Craft maintainers don't want to maintain Qt5 and no one steps up I > > guess that's understandable. > > The qt5-lts branch of Craft is no longer maintained officially since months. > Those few projects who still use this branch mostly know how to deal with > this and do the work themselves. As such it's IMHO unfair and untrue to say > that Qt 5 is unmaintained in Craft.
I said "If XXX", so given that you say that the If is false, then "XXX" of my sentence no longer applies :) Cheers, Albert > It's just not maintained anymore by > Hannah, Julius and others who maintain the Qt 6 branches of Craft. > > Many of the projects which still do Qt 5 based releases on Windows are > lighthouse projects, e.g. Kdenlive, KMyMoney, KStars. I don't think pulling > the rug under their feet is fair. (I didn't forget Krita. They maintain > their own CI/CD jobs as far as I know.) > > Isn't there a middle ground like keeping the last working Qt 5 CI images but > not creating/updating them anymore? It's not as if the Qt 5 based projects > would need to use the latest published Qt 5.15.x release or the latest > versions of their other dependencies for patch releases. In the Craft > builds they could still use newer versions of their dependencies but for CI > the versions would be frozen. > > I do agree that new feature releases which need the newest versions of some > third-party dependencies should be Qt 6 based. > > Regards, > Ingo
