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

[Maurice Kalinowski]

The mail did not state 5.12.x. Hence it was under the assumption "as always" with the next minor release.

Maurice


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jani Heikkinen
> Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:54 PM
> To: Jesus Fernandez <jesus.fernandez at qt.io>; Maurice Kalinowski
> <Maurice.Kalinowski at qt.io>; Simon Hausmann <Simon.Hausmann 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
> 
> 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
> ________________________________________
> 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
> 
> ________________________________
> 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
> ________________________________________
> 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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