Kevin Kofler (16 June 2020 12:08)
>>> What "shiny new features"? All that a real-world application such as
>>> KWrite really needs from the operating system has been there at
>>> least since the 1990s, possibly since the 1970s.
Edward Welbourne wrote:
>> and I guess it's been in Qt for several rel
On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 11:15:10 PDT Ville Voutilainen wrote:
> You'll get 5.15.x releases with a one-year delay from the commercial
> ones.
That's useless, because it means there's a one-year period in the middle with
no updates. For all intents and purposes, the LTS is dead for the free
softw
> Oddly enough, continued support for the Free Software ecosystem around
> Qt is one of the things most of us who work here care about deeply, so
I have no doubts that Qt engineers do. I can see this in in every code reciew
and I appreciate it very much!
> Our management, in any case, knows full
Hi Kevin,
On 16.06.2020 19:25, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Edward Welbourne wrote:
Kevin Kofler (16 June 2020 12:08)
What "shiny new features"? All that a real-world application such as
KWrite really needs from the operating system has been there at least
since the 1990s, possibly since the 1970s.
a
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 21:04, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >> Because all KDE applications will have to get ported to Qt 6 soon.
> > Why?
> ...because if they aren't, they won't get security fixes. (Because Qt 5
> is no longer maintained. Note that "LTS" isn't maintenance for Free
> Software, because
On 16/06/2020 13.37, Ville Voutilainen wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 20:27, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Edward Welbourne wrote:
Kevin Kofler (16 June 2020 12:08)
What "shiny new features"? All that a real-world application such as
KWrite really needs from the operating system has been there at least
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 20:27, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
> Edward Welbourne wrote:
> > Kevin Kofler (16 June 2020 12:08)
> >> What "shiny new features"? All that a real-world application such as
> >> KWrite really needs from the operating system has been there at least
> >> since the 1990s, possibly si
Edward Welbourne wrote:
> Kevin Kofler (16 June 2020 12:08)
>> What "shiny new features"? All that a real-world application such as
>> KWrite really needs from the operating system has been there at least
>> since the 1990s, possibly since the 1970s.
>
> and I guess it's been in Qt for several rel
Edward Welbourne wrote:
>> So my bad, I said our product would only work on an ancient O/S or
>> two, when it could indeed to made to work on a whole bunch of more
>> modern systems *on which it would be irrelevant* - and thus not worth
>> the significant effort of porting to, because anyone develo
Edward Welbourne wrote:
> So my bad, I said our product would only work on an ancient O/S or two,
> when it could indeed to made to work on a whole bunch of more modern
> systems *on which it would be irrelevant* - and thus not worth the
> significant effort of porting to, because anyone developing
Edward Welbourne wrote:
>> If we *never* allow ourselves breaking changes, we'd still have a
>> nice stable product that worked great on an O/S or two from the last
>> century. Qt would thus be irrelevant.
Kevin Kofler (16 June 2020 01:36)
> Nonsense. We would have a nice stable product that just
> On 16 Jun 2020, at 02:45, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
> 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
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
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Kofler
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Subject: Re: [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6
Edward Welbourne wrote:
> How many of those Win 7 users are routinely upgrading the software on
> their systems ? Given that t
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
ge-
From: Development On Behalf Of Edward
Welbourne
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 5:35 AM
To: Max Paperno
Cc: development@qt-project.org; inter...@qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6
Max Paperno (13 June 2020 03:28) wrote:
> I would restate
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
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 good" Windows version prior to 7).
Any softwar
Hi,
with Qt 6 approaching it is time to have a look at our set of supported
platforms.
One candidate for removal of support was Windows 7. Some considerations
about dropping this support have been communicated on Qt's development
mailing list in March last year [1] and there were some discus
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