[Releasing] Removal of engin.io from Qt 5.7

[Knoll Lars]

On 29/01/16 13:38, "Turunen Tuukka" <tuukka.turunen at theqtcompany.com> wrote:

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>> -----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.
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>That is fine for me as well.

Sounds like there's agreement here. Let's do this then :)

Cheers,
Lars

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>--
>Tuukka
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>> 
>> 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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