[Development] BC/SC in patch releases

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 24/08/2023 17:36, Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
> 
> On platforms where Qt is a system library, being able to at least launch your application if the system has a lower patch level than what the binary was built against sounds nice. But in practice, it’s rolling dice - the application might work fine; or it might get fatally hit by one of the not-yet-fixed bugs.

I'm kind of sceptical that this actually happens in practice. If I 
distribute a Qt application with the idea that an user can run it using 
their distribution-provided Qt, I'd just use the same distribution to 
compile the application to begin with (= the very same version for Qt) 
or an earlier release of the distribution (= earlier minor version of Qt).

It seems very unlikely that one would end up building for Qt x.y.z and 
then have their users on Qt x.y.(w<z).

My 2 c,
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