[Interest] minimum macOS runtime version for Qt 5.9+

[Jean-Michaël Celerier]

Uh ? For me it says 2.20% for MacOS 10.10 and 1.75% for Linux (in Desktop
OS market share).
https://imgur.com/a/xvAzX



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

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>> 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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