[Development] Decrease amount of qt releases in online installer

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Hello,

On 21/02/2024 11:42, Jani Heikkinen via Development wrote:
> Currently, more than 60 Qt releases can be installed from the Qt open 
> source online installer (if all installation categories are selected). 
> This requires a huge amount of disk space on the mirrors and also causes 
> some performance issues with the online installer. 

What kind of performance issues are we talking about?

> That's why I suggest 
> removing the older ones from the online installer; these releases can 
> still be found in the archive as source packages and offline installers.
> 
> But what are the ones that can be removed? I suggest removing all Qt 5 
> except Qt 5.15.x. And maybe we could also remove the oldest Qt6s, e.g. 
> all Qt 6.0.x, 6.1.x?
> 
> Any objections or other opinions?
> 

Do you have data on how what's the share of downloads per Qt version / 
OS? Maybe those can be mirrored less aggressively?

I'd hate to have to use wildly different ways to install different Qt 
versions on the same machine.

My 2 c,
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