[Interest] minimum macOS runtime version for Qt 5.9+

Vadim Peretokin vperetokin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 14:18:06 CET 2017


This sounds like a commercial issue then, could this be discussed on the
official commercial channels instead?

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:09 PM coroberti . <coroberti at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Hamish Moffatt
> <hamish at risingsoftware.com> wrote:
> > On 29/11/17 14:46, Jake Petroules wrote:
> >>
> >> Why do you need to support older versions?
> >
> > Because my customers are using them, right back to 10.7. They are
> > educational institutions with whole labs of machines set up the same way
> -
> > they probably get one chance a year to upgrade, and for whatever reason
> they
> > haven't so far. I can't stick to old Qt versions either because of
> various
> > bugs. 5.6 LTS has issues with accessibility crashes on newer macOS. 5.8
> is
> > crashing in file open dialogs on 10.13. Thus I'm stuck.
>
> Exactly, my case with edu users.
> They are using Mac HW for up to 10 years.
> About 1/3 is not upgradeable anymore: 10.7 and 10.8
>
> > I wish there was a bit more of a time window before you deprecate old
> > versions. 10.7 is no older than Windows 7.
>
> +1
>
> Kind regards,
> Robert
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