[Development] QtCS: Discussion about deprecating things

[Rafael Roquetto]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:48:07PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 June 2015 21:57:53 Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> > > * Qt 5.6 will deprecate: QNX 6.5 (QNX 6.6 OK)
> > > * Qt 5.6 will deprecate WEC 7, 2013 only.
> > 
> > Deprecate or drop them? From the C++11 thread I understood they will
> > be completely dropped due to lack of compilers.
> 
> The changelog says "may be removed or stop compiling". I think that we'll 
> simply stop maintaining them and let them bitrot.

Which means, for QNX 6.5, that it will be officially dropped - except that in
practice all this means is that we can add C++11 code to the code, and it
won't build with 6.5, only 6.6.

6.5 is deprecated as of Qt 5.5 already.

> 
> > > * Android 2.3 support for 5.6 / “Qt LTS"
> > 
> > What's "LTS" here?
> 
> Long Term Support, subject of another session, whose note taker has not sent 
> the details to the list. Oh wait, that would be me!
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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