[Development] Making Binary Incompatible Changes after Qt 6.0

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 08:32:51 PST Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
> Hm, every third release is an LTS: 5.9, 5.12, 5.15, perhaps 6.2.
> 
> So, that’s every 1.5 years if we stick to the current release cadence.

Which means it either can't be every LTS or the cadence would need to change.

If it's every third LTS, it would take us to 54 months, which is 4½ years.

> 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.

Anyone who uses libraries or plugins they don't make would be affected.

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