[Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8

[Shawn Rutledge]

That’s my view too: 10.9 may be a popular holdout for years, like 10.6 was.  Now the typical response would be: well you can still deploy Qt applications to it - doesn’t mean it has to be a supported developer platform.  Or, developers can stop upgrading Qt and stick with 5.6 or so.  Is that really what we want them to do?

Now I don’t think upgrading say a Core 2 Duo machine to 10.11 is anywhere near as bad as the iOS upgrade was (that was a disaster, in my experience on an iPad 2), but wouldn’t be surprised if people have good reasons not to.  And what does it cost us?  Most of the newer features are there anyway.  Are there really so many ifdefs that we will avoid a maintenance nightmare by removing them?  Or is it about the compiler?

> On 30 May 2016, at 10:21, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If possible, please don't..
> Unless there is a technical reason which would make dropping that version a requirement?
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> I'm still on OSX 10.9 since i like it much more then the versions that came after it.
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> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:
> Sounds good to me in principle, especially since we very likely have again next generation of both iOS and OS X to support in Qt 5.8.
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> Especially in iOS users tend to upgrade to new versions quite quickly (and then see if their devices still can run that or not).
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> Yours,
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> Tuukka
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> From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt.io at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Jake Petroules
> Sent: keskiviikkona 25. toukokuuta 2016 21.17
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> Subject: [Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8
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> Hi all,
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> Might be a bit premature, but is anyone opposed to dropping OS X 10.9 and iOS 7.x in Qt 5.8? This would follow dropping one OS X and iOS release per Qt release for the past 3 releases, but after that I think we should slow to dropping one release for each release we add (so, once annually or about once every two Qt minor releases). 10.10 and 8.0 were larger releases that began a new "generation" so I think that gives us a better baseline to start with before slowing to an annual upgrade cycle.
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