I don't think having Qt5 on OSX is so much the issue but the change the PyQt5/Python3 as that has the larger impact because it changes all the plugins.
- Nathan On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Larry Shaffer <lar...@dakotacarto.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> > wrote: > >> Il 14/10/2015 13:58, Larry Shaffer ha scritto: >> >> > With regards to Mac and Qt4 support, it may be that even an LTR 2.14 >> > release will have a very short lifespan, given that the next Mac OS >> > upgrade will probably significantly break Qt4; and, I seriously doubt >> > there will be people wanting to resurrect Qt4 again. >> >> so, wouldn't this be a strong argument against 2.14 as an LTR? >> I understand the same will hold true for Debian/Ubuntu as well. >> > > Touché, Paolo. You are probably right here, though there are still a > couple of unknowns at this point. > > By "very short lifespan" I am referring to the next Mac OS (10.12?), which > not everyone will use. It is unknown at this time whether Qt4 can be made > to support it (maybe we get lucky again and it doesn't break Qt4 much > more). On the other hand, I still get requests to support 10.6 (from 2009) > for nightlies. > > If we look at some basic Mac OS adoption trends by users [0], it is > apparent that they adopt the latest OS much more so than users of Windows. > However, it is unclear how much this reflects the general Mac QGIS user's > OS adoption rate (guessing it is roughly equivalent). > > Basically, as Nyall has pointed out, something needs done for Mac ASAP, > not 4 or 8 or 12 months from now. Towards a solution, I would like to start > providing a Qt5-based nightly for Mac (after 2.12 is released). > > [0] > https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0&qpsp=2015&qpnp=1&qptimeframe=Y > > Regards, > > Larry Shaffer > Dakota Cartography > Black Hills, South Dakota > > >> all the best. >> -- >> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu >> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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