[Development] Qt6, Qt7 roadmap?

[charleyb123 .]

Just a silly question related to the Qt roadmap (I don't want to distract
this weekend's Qt5.4 freeze-activity):

Qt6 (and even Qt7) has been mentioned on this list in the past year, and I
was curious if there were a "30,000-mile-high-view" of what might be
"on-deck" for consideration.

A web-search or qt-project.org search doesn't really show much discussion:
https://qt-project.org/search/tag/roadmap

A Jira Road Map report doesn't really show much:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel

For example, Qt5 might be summarized something like (I'm sure I'm missing
some):

*- New "modularized-library" infrastructure
*- C++11, function-pointers for signals/slots
*- QML as solid dev/deploy platform
*- Balanced focus on both desktop and mobile
*- Connectivity/Networking improvements
*- Big investments in OpenGL, Qt3D
*- Deployment of new Qt Platform Abstraction
*- Mobile deployment, "App-store" deployment
*- New platforms, (e.g., Android, iOS, Win8, WinRT, BB10, ...)
*- Transition from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine
*- Start of rework on QtPrinter
*- etc.

IMHO, that's a pretty fantastic list (and I'm sure I've missed some).  When
you throw in tremendous advances in QtCreator, embedded-device and
"Boot-to-Qt" support, and work on QBS, and new features like Enginio
(web/cloud), it speaks a very compelling story.

Possible future items might be something like:

*- ?? C++14/17 support (recall that the C++ Standards committee is looking
at speculative work to support "modules" and possibly "runtime-reflection",
and I know Thiago has been looking at how that might be relevant to
Qt/signals-slots/role-of-moc)
*- ?? Qt3D advances
*- ?? QML packaging/plugins/deployment work
*- ?? Cross-process signals/slots (pretty please? ;-))
*- ?? New modules
*- ??

Just curious.

--charley
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