[Releasing] Removal of engin.io from Qt 5.7

[Knoll Lars]

Agree that it would make most sense to remove the binaries already from 5.6.0. That’s a better and clearer message than removing them in a patch level release.

Cheers,
Lars



On 29/01/16 09:01, "Releasing on behalf of Hausmann Simon" <releasing-bounces at qt-project.org on behalf of Simon.Hausmann at theqtcompany.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Just to clarify:
>
>What Ossi is proposing is - starting with Qt 5.6.0 - to stop including qtenginio in the binary packages.
>
>In contrast to that Tuukka's proposal is to include the binaries in Qt 5.6.0 but _stop_ including them in subsequent 5.6.x releases.
>
>
>Which way should we go?
>
>
>Simon
>
>P.S.: I'm in favor of Ossi's suggestion.
>
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>Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 12:17
>To: Turunen Tuukka
>Cc: releasing at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Releasing] Removal of engin.io from Qt 5.7
>
>On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:04:57PM +0000, Turunen Tuukka wrote:
>> From: Nowacki Jedrzej
>> > What is the idea for Qt5.6 which is LTS? Does it make sense to include
>> > QtEnginio there?
>> >
>>
>> As decided earlier it is included in the Qt 5.6.0 packages, but marked
>> as deprecated. As such, it is not subject to the LTS promise. It can
>> be dropped out from some patch release of Qt 5.6.x, if it not longer
>> needed.
>>
>i'd approach this differently:
>we already concluded that we cannot *really* remove any modules
>(specifically, webkit and quick1 so far) before qt6, as "just use the
>old versions if you still need them" has already proven to be
>spectacularly unworkable. the consequence is that these modules will be
>still available in the installer, but only as sources and with a big fat
>warning (or something).
>with that in mind, it may be reasonable to "remove" enginio right away
>as well, given that discouraging people from using it is acutely urgent.
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