> On 3 Jun 2019, at 08:00, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote: > > On Sunday, 2 June 2019 16:46:00 PDT Manuel Bergler wrote: >> Well, something has to give. Either >> a) Qt can never remove superseded APIs and classes (which is what >> you suggested previously) and will eventually collapse under its own >> weight, or >> b) Distributors have to deal with the fact that some software >> doesn't port and have to ship every version of qt side-by-side, or >> c) The software that doesn't port has to deal with the fact that it >> will be dropped by distributions. But any software with sufficiently >> many users to warrant packaging by the distributors should be able to >> find a maintainer that at least can keep it compiling. > > The answer is a mix of (b) and (c). Distributions don't ship every version > side by side, just one of each major version. Software that doesn't port gets > dropped when that major version is dropped.
Yes. (a) is not an option if we want to keep Qt alive in the long term. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
