[Development] Making Binary Incompatible Changes after Qt 6.0

Giuseppe D'Angelo giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com
Wed Dec 9 01:19:19 CET 2020


Hi,

Il 08/12/20 23:55, Kevin Kofler via Development ha scritto:
>> 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.
> IMHO, the compatibility breaks at every major (first-digit, e.g., Qt 6 as
> opposed to 5) release are already painful enough, so having MORE of them
> would definitely be a step in the wrong direction.

This is not a fair comparison. Qt 5 to 6 is a source incompatible break, 
I was talking exclusively about _binary_ breaks.

Thanks,
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