[Development] Spam: Re: Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January

[Scott Bloom]

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Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> one can always say that, but there is a balance to be struck, and it 
> is
> *very* obvious that 6.1 will be what and when 6.0 should have been.
> whether BC is broken doesn't even matter at that point, because no-one 
> sane who depends on binary compat will touch 6.0 with a ten-foot pole 
> now. also, i've been watching qtcore dev closely, and _no-one_ behaved 
> as if a release was imminent, for good reason - it simply wasn't ready 
> yet, everything still being in flux.

Basically, Qt is making the same mistake with 6.0 that KDE made with 4.0: 
releasing a .0 that even the developers do not recommend actually depending on, just for the sake of releasing something.

        Kevin Kofler
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The funny thing, I remember at a Qt Dev Days when Qt 5 was about a year away.  The "we will never do a Qt 3-4 type major version change again" was said time and time again.

Where functionality was missing, and no one was happy with Qt 4.0 except the people who got to say "4.0" released

Scott