[Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards?

[Robert Iakobashvili]

Dear Jake,
Unless app developers would like to drop their existing apps
and rename/launch instead new apps,
they're forced to keep compatibility with the very first iOS-version
when their app was accepted to iTunes Store.

So, dropping iOS-6 is a not issue for me, but dropping iOS-7 - yes.

jm2c

Kind regards,
Robert

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Petroules Jake <
Jake.Petroules at theqtcompany.com> wrote:

> We're raising the minimum OS X to 10.8 (2012). The iOS minimum is still 6
> (also 2012), but I wonder whether we should also raise that a version (or
> even two) considering its uniquely rapid upgrade cycle (frequently upgraded
> hardware, less user ability to opt out of software updates).
>
> Bumping it to iOS 8 would also allow us to stop making static builds and
> thus gain support for App Extensions.
>
> Thoughts? Tor Arne?
> --
> Jake Petroules - jake.petroules at theqtcompany.com
> Consulting Services Engineer - The Qt Company
>
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of
> Turunen Tuukka <tuukka.turunen at theqtcompany.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 11:18 PM
> To: John Layt <jlayt at kde.org>, "development at qt-project.org" <
> development at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards?
>
>
>
> Hi John,
>
>
>
> This item was discussed at Qt Contributor’s Summit, please see session
> notes: http://wiki.qt.io/QtCS2015_LTS
>
>
>
> For compilers this is also documented to the Qt Base change log:
> http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/dist/changes-5.5.1
>
>
>
> For 5.6 the current list of supported platforms and compilers is the
> following: http://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5.6.0-tools-and-versions (note that we
> are working to add OS X 10.11 to CI and fully support it)
>
>
>
> The idea is that by making Qt 5.6 LTS, we gain more freedom to drop older
> (non-c++11) compilers as well as older platforms from Qt 5.7 and subsequent
> versions. Those who have such older platforms to support, are recommended
> to stay with the LTS version for a while. This approach allows us to move
> faster for new features planned for future Qt releases.
>
>
>
> For application developers the documentation is often the best source to
> find the list of supported platforms:
> http://doc.qt.io/QtSupportedPlatforms/index.html This has not yet been
> updated to 5.6, but will be before the final release.
>
>
>
> Yours,
>
>
>
>                           Tuukka
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Development [mailto:development-bounces at qt-project.org
> <development-bounces at qt-project.org>] *On Behalf Of *John Layt
> *Sent:* keskiviikkona 30. joulukuuta 2015 20.43
> *To:* development at qt-project.org
> *Subject:* [Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Can I just clarify what the minimum deployment platforms are for 5.7
> onwards? That is, the lowest version of each OS that the code must still
> run on? Far as I can tell it's something like:
>
> Windows 7 (or Vista?)
>
> Windows Embedded Compact 2013
>
> OSX 10.8
>
> iOS 5.0?
>
> Android 4.1 (API Level 16)?
>
> RHEL 6.6
>
> Ubuntu 11.10?
>
> There really should be a wiki page for this...
>
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> John.
>
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