[Development] Decrease amount of qt releases in online installer

[Tuukka Turunen]

Hi,

For the open-source online installer where mirorbrain is used.

The commercial distribution is done with a different system where mirror space is not an issue and there is a much higher number of “mirrors”, so also the archive performance is a bit better.

Yours,

                                Tuukka

From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of Tomasz Siekierda <sierdzio at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 15:50
To: Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io>
Cc: development at qt-project.org <development at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Development] Decrease amount of qt releases in online installer
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 11:44, Jani Heikkinen via Development <development at qt-project.org<mailto:development at qt-project.org>> wrote:
Hi,

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. 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?


Is this only about Open Source installer or also Commercial one? I'm on Qt 5.12.5 (Commercial) and will continue using this version potentially for years to come (yeah it sucks but it's not my choice). So it would be nice to still have it in the installer. I can compile it myself, I know I know, but the installer is just a lot more convenient.
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