[Development] Minimum Deployment Platforms for 5.7 onwards?

Robert Iakobashvili coroberti at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 06:51:45 CET 2016


Yes, Gian, you are right.

iTunes delivers updates only to the users with appropriate iOS version.

And users with older iOS could be told to upgrade their hardware.
When they get a newer HW, they can get the updated software
in due course.

Thanks for clarifying it.

Kind regards,
Robert

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Gian Maxera <gmaxera at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> 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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