[Releasing] Removal of engin.io from Qt 5.7

[Turunen Tuukka]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Knoll Lars
> Sent: perjantaina 29. tammikuuta 2016 12.49
> To: Hausmann Simon <Simon.Hausmann at theqtcompany.com>;
> Buddenhagen Oswald <Oswald.Buddenhagen at theqtcompany.com>;
> Turunen Tuukka <tuukka.turunen at theqtcompany.com>
> Cc: releasing at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Releasing] Removal of engin.io from Qt 5.7
> 
> 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.

That is fine for me as well.

--
Tuukka

> 
> 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.
> >
> >________________________________________
> >From: Releasing <releasing-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of Oswald
> >Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen at theqtcompany.com>
> >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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