[Development] qsizetype

[Andreas Aardal Hanssen]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022, at 08:45, Kevin Kofler via Development wrote:
> Alex Blasche wrote:
> > 2.) An alternative might be to make this change in one go for Qt 7. We
> > would keep Qt 6.x on the status quo but start adding compatible
> > replacement APi with an absolute change at 7.0 (ifdefs or typedefs come to
> > mind). Users would only be burdened one time (though it being one BIG time
> > effort). Such a change would be much simpler in Qt headers.
> It scares me that a Qt 7 is already being planned or discussed at all, 
> considering that your major consumers such as KDE Plasma are not even ported 
> to Qt 6 yet! (Note that I am talking about *consumers* here, not only about 
> (paying) customers. The former includes FOSS projects such as KDE.)
> Those major/BIC releases need to happen a lot less frequently, or ideally, 
> stop entirely. At least if you want your consumers to keep up (and you 
> clearly do or you would not have restricted access to Qt 5.15 LTS).
> You should plan for Qt 6.x releases (rather than 7.x) for at least 10 more 
> years, if not indefinitely.

I second this, considering the breakages in APIs and behavior, and bugs introduced, in Qt 6, I feel discussions about Qt 7 send a very poor signal. Porting to Qt 6 is a huge and costly effort. With so much care being made not to break BC, I would hope more care would be taken to preserve behavioral (QVariant/QMetaType) and API compatibility. I hope KDE not using Qt 6 yet sends a message taken seriously on the Qt side. Stay on Qt 6 for a long time guys.

Andreas