[Interest] minimum macOS runtime version for Qt 5.9+

[Vadim Peretokin]

I don't know where you're looking, but that says Linux is at 2.98% while
macOS 10.10 is at 0.75%. Just pointing it out in case someone else believed
this at first.

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:24 AM Jean-Michaël Celerier <
jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> wrote:

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