[Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of MinGW 32-bit packages

[Jani Heikkinen]

Hi!

>>And I think we started providing binaries for a platform in 5.12.0 we cannot stop providing them in 5.12.x.
I disagree. I agree we shouldn't do this kind of decisions without good reasons but I don't see anything why we couldn't do this kind of changes if there is good reasons. This is different issue than dropping support which we can't do in patch level releases...

 If we want to start delivering mingw32bit (which were dropped but it seems to be widely needed) then we need to drop something. It was proposed that UWP x86 msvc 2015 prebuild binaries are replaced with mingw32 ones. PM sent proposal to the ML and no-one disagreed. Then we did the decision to do the switch... One needing UWP x86 for MSVC2015 can still compile those by himself.

br,
Jani
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From: Jesus Fernandez
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 1:06 PM
To: Jani Heikkinen; Maurice Kalinowski; Simon Hausmann
Cc: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of MinGW 32-bit packages

> I think what Jesus refers to is patch level releases.

Yes, I was referring to patch releases.

And I think we started providing binaries for a platform in 5.12.0 we cannot stop providing them in 5.12.x.


Best regards,

Jesús

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From: Jani Heikkinen
Sent: 06 February 2019 11:02
To: Maurice Kalinowski; Simon Hausmann; Jesus Fernandez
Cc: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of MinGW 32-bit packages

Hi,

As Simon already wrote this is affecting only prebuilt binary packages we deliver and nothing else. It is true that we usually haven't touched (at least removed) those in patch level releases but I don't see any big issue with doing this now; UWP x86 msvc 2015 isn't that widely used and feedback from dropping mingw 32 bit is coming just from 5.12 series...

br,
Jani
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From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of Maurice Kalinowski <Maurice.Kalinowski at qt.io>
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 11:32 AM
To: Simon Hausmann; Jesus Fernandez
Cc: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of MinGW 32-bit packages

I think what Jesus refers to is patch level releases.
We’ve been changing binary packages for platforms within minor releases so far, but not for patch level ones.

Maurice


From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Simon Hausmann
Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 9:19 AM
To: Jesus Fernandez <jesus.fernandez at qt.io>
Cc: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of MinGW 32-bit packages

Afaik this merely affects the binaries provided in the installer. It does not result in any changes in the git repos.
Simon

On 5. Feb 2019, at 16:03, Jesus Fernandez <jesus.fernandez at qt.io<mailto:jesus.fernandez at qt.io>> wrote:
Can we remove a platform in a minor version?



Best regards,
Jesús


-------- Original message --------
From: Harald Kjølberg <harald.kjolberg at qt.io<mailto:harald.kjolberg at qt.io>>
Date: 05/02/2019 15:56 (GMT+01:00)
To: development at qt-project.org<mailto:development at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of MinGW 32-bit packages


Hi,

As no objections have been received, the proposed change will be implemented, effective from Qt 5.12.2.


Cheers,
Harald

From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org<mailto:development-bounces at qt-project.org>> on behalf of Harald Kjølberg <harald.kjolberg at qt.io<mailto:harald.kjolberg at qt.io>>
Date: Tuesday, 22 January 2019 at 14:36
To: "development at qt-project.org<mailto:development at qt-project.org>" <development at qt-project.org<mailto:development at qt-project.org>>
Subject: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of MinGW 32-bit packages


Hi,

In order to improve transparency and visibility (after getting some constructive and well deserved criticism):

We have received a proposal of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of MinGW 32-bit packages. We looked at this today and agreed that this can be done, and it should be our intention to do so. We will make the final decision February 5th, and it will remain as described unless we get a lot of feedback saying that we should do otherwise.

For further details: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-73019



Regards,
Harald Kjølberg

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