[Interest] Another Qt disappointment

[Rui Oliveira]

Hahaha, welcome to the state of Qt 2021. Feel free to read the March 
archive of this mailing list 
(https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2021-March/thread.html) 
to get up to date (you'll know what threads I mean when you see them). 
Or https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-4121. Or the resulting 
https://dot.kde.org/2021/04/06/announcing-kdes-qt-5-patch-collection.

Honestly, I'm "fine" with Qt supporting LTS commercially only, sure 
fine. But that should have started with 6.2. It was very bad to remove 
LTS when the next "normal" version was *admittedly* half baked. I don't 
mind having to move with the 6 month pace being a FOSS version user, but 
we were left in the weird grey area of no bugfix release and a negative 
feature release...

Someone thought it was a good idea, and maybe it was, I haven't watched 
the financial records. Or the community contribution statistics...

Oh well...
Rui

Às 16:19 de 03/05/2021, Jérôme Godbout escreveu:
>
> +1: The 2 last project I had to start went Xamarin because of this 
> situation, I guess we might restart Qt dev, when 6.2 come around, 
> until then we have a hard time to work into IoT  and mobile with 6, 
> many of our lib depends on missing modules, we keep our old project 
> alive with Qt 5.15.2, but nothing will be port to Qt 6 until 6.2 or 
> something else if the pressure get too high or our Xamarin toolbox get 
> good enough I guess.
>
> *From: *Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of Frank 
> Hemer <frank at hemer.org>
> *Date: *Monday, May 3, 2021 at 11:03 AM
> *To: *interest at qt-project.org <interest at qt-project.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Interest] Another Qt disappointment
>
> On Montag, 3. Mai 2021 16:44:43 CEST Jason H wrote:
> > I have a load cell. It's a sensor that measures weight. I wanted to 
> make a
> > quick UI for it in Qt. That went as expected. Then I wanted to put 
> the app
> > on a spare Amazon Fire tablet rather than tie up a computer with it.
> >
> > I was running with Qt 5.15.2, but there's. bug with Bearer in Qt 
> 5.15.2, so
> > I went to update it, and lo and behold, there is no 5.15.3. It's
> > apparently, commercial-only. So I figured I'd finally update to Qt 6,
> > except that after installing, it turns out Qt 6.0 doesn't have
> > androidextras.
> >
> > It's not just me that is disappointed, everyone in the comments at
> > https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.3-released 
> <https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.3-released> seems 
> disappointed
> > that 5.15.3 is commercial-only.
> >
> > So as I sit here waiting for Qt 6 and Qt 5.15 to uninstall, and Qt 
> 5.12 to
> > install, I figured that I'd drop this note about how things are 
> going the
> > wrong way.
>
> +1
>
>
>
>
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