Hi,
One more thing to note related to 10.15 support in Qt 6.5 is that even if it is
dropped from the supported platforms (as has been planned), it doesn’t mean it
would be impossible for someone to use it in their application. Of course,
deploying to an unsupported version means more testing and possibly some fixes
to be picked. It is never recommended to run on a non-tested (in CI)
configuration, but doing the testing for the application is still an option.
That said, staying for a while with Qt 6.4.x is another option for those who
still need to support 10.15 during next year.
Yours,
Tuukka
From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> on behalf of Vladimir
Belyavsky <belyavs...@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 23. December 2022 at 11.54
To: development@qt-project.org <development@qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Development] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant for More than 95% of Mac
Desktops
For my company, dropping support for macOS 10.15 in Qt 6.5 is also problematic,
as we'll have to stick with Qt 6.4 or consider dropping support and updates for
about 15% of our users.
Here are our internal statistics on the current macOS distribution to real
average users,
based on a really large number of customers:
- macOS 10.14.6 ~ 5% (fortunately Qt 6.3.2 it's still functional there)
- macOS 10.15.7 ~ 10%
As a developer, I understand the reason for stopping legacy OS support,
but it will not be easy for me to explain to the management why we once again
should stop supporting quite a large number of our users. (they are still angry
after dropping Win7)
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