On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 11:21 PM Nicolas Fella <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28/07/2026 12:52, Ben Cooksley wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > For some time now Qt 5 has been in extended maintenance / support, > > which Iif my understanding is correct has now come to an end. > > > > Accordingly, given that all of our applications have now had a > > substantial amount of time to migrate, and plenty of notice that CI > > would be withdrawn eventually, i'd like to proceed with withdrawing CI > > support for Qt 5. > > > > This will free up valuable space on the CI nodes and allow us to > > remove an image that is under very minimal, if any, maintenance. > > > > Please let me know if there are any objections. > > Hi, > > for applications I agree to drop Qt5 CI. The few usages that are left > either already have Qt6 CI, or are more or less dead projects. > Correct. > > That said, we have a number of (Plasma) components that we still build > for Qt5 for (external) application compatibility (breeze, > plasma-integration, etc). So far we have not made a decision to stop > doing that, and I'd rather not lose CI for those. That doesn't mean we >From my understanding distributions are stripping Qt 5 support out fairly quickly, so i'd be inclined to end support for Qt 5 in those Plasma components, and for distributions still shipping Qt 5 ask them to keep building the last release of those components that supported Qt 5. > > need Qt5 CI in the current form. Could we use a distribution image with > Qt and the few necessary libraries/frameworks baked in? That would be a > much smaller image and easier to maintain than the current suse-qt515 > image. > CI images even with things baked in have a degree of cost associated with them as distributions drop packages / change package names (ignoring the storage requirements for those images). Do those components have promises not to use fancy new C++ features, etc that often require modern, up to date compilers that wouldn't necessarily be featured in a stable distribution? > > Cheers > > Nico > > Cheers, Ben
