> -----Original Message----- > From: Interest [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=qt...@qt-project.org] > On Behalf Of Jason H > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 4:53 PM > To: Interests Qt <interest@qt-project.org> > Subject: [Interest] Qt Versioning Questions > > So Qt has 3 codelines being maintained (AFAIK): 5.6 (LTS), 5.7, 5.8 > > I need fixes that are in 5.6.2. First question: When will those fixes from > 5.6.2 > be available in 5.7 and 5.8? Given the timing it looks like 5.6.2->5.7.1-5.8?
This is correct. > Also I am waiting for https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-51133 to land > in some version which will be my next used Qt version after 5.6.2. The > change for 51133 is exposing "scaledFontSize" in the QML Text element. I > understand this is an "API" change and can only be delivered in 5.8, though I > don't think it would break binary compatibility? Is that correct? Binary compatibility is indeed less of a concern, since this is for a QML element. However, new properties should only appear in a new import, because otherwise bindings for existing applications might change unexpectedly. Introducing new properties in a patch level release would also break the promise that an app compiled against 5.6.2 can still run with 5.6.0. To cite the ChangeLog for 5.6.1: Qt 5.6.1 is a bug-fix release. It maintains both forward and backward compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 5.6.0. > I also > understand that 5.8 is approaching freeze, so will this land in 5.8 or will I > have > to wait another year to see it in 5.9? Given the amount of awesome going > into 5.8, I'd like to see it there as I don't have anything in 5.7 of > interest and > I'd not like to wait a year to get this (I'd actually love to see it arrive > in the 5.6 > line) 5.8 is already in feature freeze, so I'm afraid this has to wait for 5.9. But 5.9 will hopefully not take a year, current plan says April 2017. Regards Kai _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
