[Development] Changing Qt's Binary Compatibility policy
Thiago Macieira
thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri May 24 19:34:49 CEST 2024
On Friday 24 May 2024 13:29:41 GMT-3 Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote:
> Details: no user downgrades Qt and therefore has ever needed this. This
> is something that only Qt developers themselves have possibly needed --
> seems to be a historical remnant at this point.
>
> Concretely, this means that we can make our lives easier; for instance,
> when backporting fixes, we'll allow new symbols to appear in patch
> releases.
This is what prevents the 6.5.5-to-6.6.1 upgrade. So it makes some people's
lives easier in one way by those people's and our users' more difficult in
another.
> Does this sound good?
Yes.
For me, there's no such thing as LTS anyway, so I don't care about anything
6.5 beyond 6.5.3. This policy doesn't affect *me*.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Fleet Engineering and Quality
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