On 5/3/2021 8:44 AM, Jason H wrote:
I have a load cell. It's a sensor that measures weight. I wanted to make a
quick UI for it in Qt.
That went as expected. Then I wanted to put the app on a spare Amazon Fire
tablet rather than tie up a computer with it.
I was running with Qt 5.15.2, but there's. bug with Bearer in Qt 5.15.2, so I
went to update it, and lo and behold, there is no 5.15.3. It's apparently,
commercial-only. So I figured I'd finally update to Qt 6, except that after
installing, it turns out Qt 6.0 doesn't have androidextras.
It's not just me that is disappointed, everyone in the comments at
https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.3-released seems disappointed
that 5.15.3 is commercial-only.
So as I sit here waiting for Qt 6 and Qt 5.15 to uninstall, and Qt 5.12 to
install, I figured that I'd drop this note about how things are going the wrong
way.
I believe the post in early January (titled "Qt 5.15 pull out of open
source?!") made a similar observation, and served as the snowball which ended
with the late unpleasantness.
Let's be real: It was a blatantly stupid decision to cut off open source
support within the /production/ 5.15 line. Compound that with some of the
licensing decisions made with Qt6, and it leaves me, both personally and
professionally, with a distrust of TQC's road map for Qt. I'm hesitant now to
base any software designs on it because of this new baggage.
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