[Development] Making Binary Incompatible Changes after Qt 6.0

[Benjamin TERRIER]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 17:44, Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer at qt.io>
wrote:

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> > On 8 Dec 2020, at 16:28, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 01:55:12 PST Giuseppe D'Angelo via
> Development
> > wrote:
> >> Raising the bar: apart from some cases of API problems in 6.0, would it
> >> be feasible to do a BC break after every LTS? We might find more
> >> annoyances we want to fix.
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> > So long LTSs don't happen more often than every 4 years.
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> Hm, every third release is an LTS: 5.9, 5.12, 5.15, perhaps 6.2.
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> So, that’s every 1.5 years if we stick to the current release cadence.
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> As a Qt developer I find this very tempting. But it also means that the
> whole world has to rebuild all the Qt things every 18 months, which is
> perhaps not great from an eco-system perspective.
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Aren't LTS a commercial only thing now?
So doing a BC after an LTS isn't much different than doing it after any
other version for distro maintainers and the open source world in general.

Benjamin
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