[Development] Branch for Qt 6
Allan Jensen
Allan.Jensen at qt.io
Tue Jan 15 13:14:19 CET 2019
On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:22:11 CET Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> > On 15 Jan 2019, at 12:13, Allan Jensen <Allan.Jensen at qt.io> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 12:06:17 CET Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> >
> >>> On 15 Jan 2019, at 11:54, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Ok, guess I misunderstood a bit. My idea was to keep ‘dev’ for 5.x
> >>> development and ‘qt6’ for Qt 6 related development. At some point (when
> >>> 5.15 is branched) we’d basically rename qt6 to dev (because at that
> >>> point
> >>> there’s no 5.x anymore).
> >>
> >>
> >> Okey, so we _will_ have parallel Qt 5 and Qt 6 feature development, and
> >> in
> >> that case need two “dev” branches.
> >
> >
> >
> >> I argue that instead of naming them ‘dev’ and ‘qt6’ like proposed, we
> >> use
> >> explicit names, either:
> >
> >
> >
> >> - 6.0 and 5.15 (if there’s no 6.1 branched 6.0 is “dev. If there’s no
> >> 5.16
> >> branched, 5.15 is “dev”)
> >
> >
> > I prefer the idea of keeping dev and make it head of 5.x that very clearly
> >
indicates we want new feature development in 5.x not in qt6.
>
>
> At some point we _do_ want new feature development in Qt 6 (I presume). The
> names we choose now will stick, let’s be a bit proactive.
At that point qt6 will become dev, and later 6.0 and dev?
'Allan
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