[Interest] the path forward - that 7 year thing - was, willy-nilly

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 28 March 2021 04:54:56 PDT Roland Hughes wrote:
> What is "the process" criteria for new major version number? I'm
> curious. Why? Because I agree with Scott. Extinction of platforms needs
> to be a mandating force.

The new major version happens when we need to do a binary compatibility break. 
Until that is necessary, we will not make a new major version.

Dropping old platforms has been done since the early 2000s. Everyone who 
adopted Qt since 3.0 has known of this. It's was not news then and it's not 
now.

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  Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering