[Development] Remove OSX 10.6 Build?

[Sorvig Morten]

On 21 Jan 2014, at 13:20, Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo at digia.com> wrote:

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> On 21/01/14 11:23 , Sorvig Morten wrote:
>> I agree with many of these arguments, and I was in favor of setting
>> the minimum supported version to 10.7 back when we started Qt 5
>> development. But we did make the decision to support 10.6. The
>> implementation effort has been made and that decision should be
>> respected.
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> I don't get this. Is this an argument for keeping 10.6 support until 6.0? Is the support matrix frozen once a x.0 release is out? If not, when do we drop support?

No, having to keep support until 6.0 would not work. We drop support when the reasons for dropping support outweigh the reasons for keeping it.

Not throwing away work already done is a reason for keeping support. But as I note in the next paragraph that reason is not valid forever.

Morten