[Development] BC/SC in patch releases

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

El jueves, 24 de agosto de 2023 13:09:18 -03 Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development escribió:
> 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).

With my Debian hat on: I really don't recall this happening ever. Having an app compiled against an older Qt version is just normal, but the other way around... definitely not.
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