[Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards?

[Gian Maxera]

Dear Robert,
are you sure the apple store force to keep compatibility of the very first iOS version ??
From what I know, you can drop compatibility of older iOS version when you release a new version on the app store.
And when someone install your app in an older phone, a popup appear warning the user that will be installed an older version because the last version of the app required a more recent iOS.

Ciao,
Gianluca.


> On 8 Jan 2016, at 10:50, Robert Iakobashvili <coroberti at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto:jake.petroules at theqtcompany.com>
> Consulting Services Engineer - The Qt Company
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> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org <mailto:development-bounces at qt-project.org>> on behalf of Turunen Tuukka <tuukka.turunen at theqtcompany.com <mailto:tuukka.turunen at theqtcompany.com>>
> Date: Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 11:18 PM
> To: John Layt <jlayt at kde.org <mailto:jlayt at kde.org>>, "development at qt-project.org <mailto:development at qt-project.org>" <development at qt-project.org <mailto:development at qt-project.org>>
> Subject: Re: [Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards?
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> Hi John,
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> This item was discussed at Qt Contributor’s Summit, please see session notes: http://wiki.qt.io/QtCS2015_LTS <http://wiki.qt.io/QtCS2015_LTS>
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> 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 <http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtbase.git/tree/dist/changes-5.5.1>
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> 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 <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)
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> 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.
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> For application developers the documentation is often the best source to find the list of supported platforms: http://doc.qt.io/QtSupportedPlatforms/index.html <http://doc.qt.io/QtSupportedPlatforms/index.html> This has not yet been updated to 5.6, but will be before the final release.
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> Yours,
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>                           Tuukka
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> From: Development [mailto:development-bounces at qt-project.org <mailto:development-bounces at qt-project.org>] On Behalf Of John Layt
> Sent: keskiviikkona 30. joulukuuta 2015 20.43
> To: development at qt-project.org <mailto:development at qt-project.org>
> Subject: [Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards?
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> Hi,
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> 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:
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> Windows 7 (or Vista?)
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> Windows Embedded Compact 2013
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> OSX 10.8
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> iOS 5.0?
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> Android 4.1 (API Level 16)?
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> RHEL 6.6
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> Ubuntu 11.10?
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> There really should be a wiki page for this...
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> Cheers!
> 
> John.
> 
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