[Development] Making Binary Incompatible Changes after Qt 6.0

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 9 December 2020 02:00:29 PST Benjamin TERRIER wrote:
> Back to the topic, wouldn't it be acceptable to break BC before 6.2 release?
> I mean Qt 6 isn't really complete until 6.2, so if a break is required it
> kind of makes sense to make it happen before everyone has made the switch
> from Qt 5 to Qt 6.

That would effectively mean 6.0 and 6.1 are duds and should not be used. We 
should have called them 5.98 and 5.99 then.

No, we either break BC before May 2021, before adoption really starts, or we 
wait until 2025. Anything in-between is not acceptable.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering