On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 21:04, Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.fl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Because all KDE applications will have to get ported to Qt 6 soon. > > Why? > ...because if they aren't, they won't get security fixes. (Because Qt 5 > is no longer maintained. Note that "LTS" isn't maintenance for Free > Software, because it won't be available. You'll get 5.15.x releases with a one-year delay from the commercial ones. If you start using it from the first of those releases, and until then, use the previous LTS before that or an earlier Qt version like 5.14, there's very little difference for you. > Also, because if they aren't, the user needs to have two complete > software stacks installed, and those stacks will likely have various > incompatibilities, or at least aesthetic inconsistencies (which are > annoying to users). (This assumes that KDE will even *allow* multiple > versions to be co-installed.) Sure, that's no different from Qt 3->4 or 4->5 transitions. My question "Why?" was mostly about "soon". _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
