[Interest] minimum macOS runtime version for Qt 5.9+

[Jake Petroules]

Also, you need to look at future outlook. If Linux is at 3%, that number is likely to remain stable or grow. If macOS 10.10 is at 1%, that number will never grow and will likely drop sharply in a short timeframe given historical trends as newer versions gain market share in its place and macOS gains market share overall.

> On Nov 29, 2017, at 12:28 AM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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
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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:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> Why do you need to support older versions?
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> > Thanks,
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> > Hamish
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