Re: [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6

2020-06-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > Sounds like y’all have a wonderful new business opportunity ahead of > yourselves: charge your new-leaf-app-on-old-OS customers handsomely for > the extra effort. After all, you do have to keep your Windows 7 test rigs > around (and secured); perhaps even pay some extra r

Re: [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6

2020-06-15 Thread Volker Hilsheimer
Sounds like y’all have a wonderful new business opportunity ahead of yourselves: charge your new-leaf-app-on-old-OS customers handsomely for the extra effort. After all, you do have to keep your Windows 7 test rigs around (and secured); perhaps even pay some extra retainers to those developers o

Re: [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6

2020-06-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Edward Welbourne wrote: > How many of those Win 7 users are routinely upgrading the software on > their systems ? Given that they're not updating the O/S, it seems > reasonable to presume that they are, at least, somewhat conservative > about upgrades; they don't want the shiny new features the fo

Re: [Development] First Qt6.0.0 Snaphot available

2020-06-15 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday, 15 June 2020 09:37:31 PDT Alexandru Croitor wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. Usually Qt forces usage of the bundled 3rd party > libs via -qt-libpng flags, etc And that just goes to show why you shouldn't use those binaries. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Softwa

Re: [Development] ?==?utf-8?q? First Qt6.0.0 Snaphot available

2020-06-15 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer via Development
On Monday, June 15, 2020 14:06 CEST, Jani Heikkinen wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > We have published first Qt6.0.0 snapshot today, see more info from Tuukka's > blog post: https://www.qt.io/blog/first-qt-6.0-snapshot-available Hi, is the source available somewhere? Can't find any 6.0 tarballs on

[Development] About Qt6 and qt-solitions repository

2020-06-15 Thread Vincas Dargis
Hi list, I see more and more discussions about Qt6, and though what future will look like for qt-solutions [0] repo? It has some useful tools like qtservice and qtsingleapplication, though other "solutions" seems not really updated any more. Anyhow, I guess it's purely community effort to mak

Re: [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6

2020-06-15 Thread Corey Pendleton
Hi Max, I get the issues as you present them. Why drop support for the 2nd most popular OS version out there?! This also doubles the effort required for Qt developers who want to target older systems with Qt 6 apps. That is certainly a pain point! There are couple more thoughts I've had after re

Re: [Development] First Qt6.0.0 Snaphot available

2020-06-15 Thread Alexandru Croitor
> On 15. Jun 2020, at 18:01, Albert Astals Cid via Development > wrote: > > El dilluns, 15 de juny de 2020, a les 14:06:00 CEST, Jani Heikkinen va > escriure: >> Hi Everyone, >> >> We have published first Qt6.0.0 snapshot today, see more info from Tuukka's >> blog post: https://www.qt.io/blo

Re: [Development] First Qt6.0.0 Snaphot available

2020-06-15 Thread Albert Astals Cid via Development
El dilluns, 15 de juny de 2020, a les 14:06:00 CEST, Jani Heikkinen va escriure: > Hi Everyone, > > We have published first Qt6.0.0 snapshot today, see more info from Tuukka's > blog post: https://www.qt.io/blog/first-qt-6.0-snapshot-available > > Qt 6.0.0 snapshot can be found from 'Preview' ca

[Development] First Qt6.0.0 Snaphot available

2020-06-15 Thread Jani Heikkinen
Hi Everyone, We have published first Qt6.0.0 snapshot today, see more info from Tuukka's blog post: https://www.qt.io/blog/first-qt-6.0-snapshot-available Qt 6.0.0 snapshot can be found from 'Preview' category in Qt online installer/Maintenance tool. This snapshot is based on quite old content

Re: [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6

2020-06-15 Thread Edward Welbourne
Max Paperno (13 June 2020 03:28) wrote: > I would restate my objection by pointing out again [1] that Win 7 is > still the 2nd most popular desktop OS in the world, with 3x more users > than all MacOS versions combined. Never mind Linux, which is on par > with Win XP users (the previous "known goo