Hi,
One clarification: we are not talking about stopping support for macOS 10.15 in
the already released version of Qt. It continues to be supported target with Qt
5.15 LTS and Qt 6.2 LTS as well as Qt 6.4. Of course within reasonable limits
as Apple itself has already stopped supporting it.
The discussion in this email thread has been about whether or not it should be
supported in the next Qt release: Qt 6.5 coming in ~3,5 months from now.
Yours,
Tuukka
From: Interest <interest-boun...@qt-project.org> on behalf of Turtle Creek
Software <supp...@turtlesoft.com>
Date: Sunday, 18. December 2022 at 17.27
To: interest@qt-project.org <interest@qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant...
We sell to construction companies. They are not computer geeks, and often run
the original OS until the machine dies. Given the flakiness of some Mac OS
upgrades, that may be ideal policy.
Apple moves far too fast with chip, OS and language changes. It's hard for
small developers to keep up. We started on 680x0, Pascal and Toolbox. That's 3
chips, 3 languages and 3 OS frameworks ago. A jolt every 3 years.
We gave up on Xcode/Cocoa since Obj-C seemed doomed and we have too much C++
code to ever port to Swift and/or SwiftUI. I imagine Qt faces the same
problems, but on a more system level.
If Qt Co does not have the resources to support more than 3 years of OS
versions, then please at least create some good stopping points that solidly
support older Mac OS versions. Explain which to use for which OS ranges. Then,
developers may need to build multiple apps. That kinda sucks, but it's better
than losing/annoying users because they don't want the expense/pain of new
hardware.
Casey McDermott
TurtleSoft.com
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