On Oct 4, 2011, at 9:13 AM, ext [email protected] wrote: > > On 04/10/2011, at 6:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Sep 29, 2011, at 6:02 AM, ext Rohan McGovern wrote: >>> It would be good if we could somehow get some more data/feedback on who >>> might be interested to deploy a Qt 5.0 app on OSX 10.6. Right now I >>> have argued against it mostly for selfish reasons and I honestly have >>> no idea who cares about it :) >> >> I would like to require 10.7 for developing (with) Qt 5. My impression is >> that most developers are running that version anyway and I would rather not >> have to maintain 10.6 support during the Qt 5.0 development. >> >> 10.6 support can be implemented later on if someone is interested in doing >> the work, but I'm hoping this won't be a big issue by the time we get to the >> Qt 5.0 release. > > > While clearly this would make life easier for some developers, it's just too > premature to move on yet. Lion has only just been out a few months. As I > understand it, Qt5 is supposed to be aiming for a date sometime next year. > That would mean that you'd be dropping support for a Mac OS version that was > the latest up to only about a year before you drop it! I don't know that > there would be too many cases in Qt's history where it dropped a mainstream > desktop version so quickly......
After reviewing feedback on and off list it seems I have to make a quick retreat here and support 10.6, also for pre-release Qt 5. For those who are interested, supporting 10.6 involves implementing alliterative code paths where we use API introduced in 10.7 int the main code path. This is usually not much code, and I would say the majority of effort is testing and verifying that Qt still compiles and runs on 10.6. I would like to draw the line at 10.6 though, 10.5 will not be supported. Morten _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
