[Interest] minimum macOS runtime version for Qt 5.9+

[Vadim Peretokin]

Well you haven't shown your search criteria but I can tell you that the
October 2017 stats are not what you say: https://imgur.com/a/avGLj. If
you're gonna be using stats to reinforce your point, you've gotta be honest
about it.

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:47 AM Jean-Michaël Celerier <
jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>> The Qt Company - Silicon Valley
>>>> Qbs build tool evangelist - qbs.io
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