[Interest] The willy-nilly deletion of convenience methods (was: Mixing Commercial and Open...)

Jason H jhihn at gmx.com
Sun Mar 21 13:42:25 CET 2021


> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 at 4:07 PM
> From: "Roland Hughes" <roland at logikalsolutions.com>

> Licensing FUD + death-of-perpetual-license + death-of-OpenSource-LTS +
> Qt-6-rolling-out-incomplete + deleted-convenience-methods =
> customers-leaving
>

I find myself agreeing with Roland here. The rollout of the core modules if KDE without the rest was a disaster and I was shocked, disappointed, and perplexed as to why anyone would do it.  So there is Qt6? No one I know is targeting it. Way to make all that work irrelevant, or at least less relevant than a Qt 5.16 release would have been. (Binary/API promises aside)

I'm really dismayed and confused as anyone would repeat the rollout of KDE. Xfce and GNOME are crushing KDE, and I attribute that to the way they rolled it out. In this day to not have multimedia a part of that... Just wow... The older and stable modules I could understand, QtSQL? Sure. But it creates an idea of "it's not ready yet" so no one targets it.  I anticipate that 5.15 will require a doubly long LTS period as a result.


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