[Interest] minimum macOS runtime version for Qt 5.9+

[Jean-Michaël Celerier]

There are more or less as many MacOS 10.10 users than Linux users
apparently, so by that logic Qt should be dropping Linux support altogether
:p (according to https://www.netmarketshare.com/)



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Jean-Michaël Celerier
http://www.jcelerier.name

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Jake Petroules <Jake.Petroules at qt.io>
wrote:

>
>
> > On Nov 28, 2017, at 7:43 PM, Hamish Moffatt <hamish at risingsoftware.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html lists the supported
> macOS environments, but it's not clear if it's the same versions (10.10+)
> for runtime (deployment) as well as development, or whether running on
> earlier versions is supported. Does anyone know?
>
> Currently we support the same minimum version for both runtime and
> development. Currently this is macOS 10.10 for Qt 5.9. Earlier OS versions
> will not work and will crash.
>
> > http://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-5.10/supported-platforms.html suggests
> that 5.10 will increase this requirement further to 10.11+. Why is this?
>
> We decided it wasn't worth the resources to continue testing with 10.10.
> macOS upgrades are now free and the overwhelming majority of users are on
> the latest version.
>
> Why do you need to support older versions?
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Hamish
> >
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