[Development] Qt 6 Planning: Consideration of dropping support for UWP applications

[Henry Skoglund]

On 2019-04-18 14:46, Oliver Wolff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as you might have heard, we are currently in Qt 6's planning phase and
> thus checking things that have to be done to make Qt even better.
> Of course we also want to use this opportuniy to drop support for
> platforms that are no longer relevant in Qt's new environment.
> 
> One of these platforms is Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform which
> is used on desktop PCs (for "Tiled" UWP applications, no classic desktop
> applications), Windows Phone, Xbox one, Microsoft Hololens, and
> Microsoft IoT devices. With Windows Phone no longer being relevant and
> Microsoft's IoT strategy being unclear we now consider dropping support
> for these platforms. Additional benefits and reasons can be found in
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74755
> 
> To be able to make the right decision, we now want your input as well.
> If you can give some input on why support should be kept or have
> additional reasons for dropping support, please reply to this mail or
> add your input to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74755 where we
> want to gather all the needed information before making a decision.
> 
> As said before, nothing is set in stone. At the moment we are gathering
> information so that we can make a well informed decision.
> Olli

Hi, please drop, I think UWP has seen its better days. Both Microsoft 
Edge and Office 2019 are now classic Win32 desktop apps.

Also, could you also drop support for UWP in Qt Creator? When I install 
Qt on my Mac I look at the Qt Creator plugin libWinRt.dylib and wonder 
why? Same on Linux, I get libWinRt.so included in Qt Creator, and on 
Windows 7 of course I get winRt4.dll. Neither Wine or Windows 7 will 
never support UWP so that plugin can be tossed even before Qt6 for those 
OS's.

Happy Easter /Henry