Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant...

2022-12-22 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:40:11 -03 Hamish Moffatt via Interest wrote: > On 21/12/22 06:38, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > On Montag, 19. Dezember 2022 16:59:41 CET Michael Jackson wrote: > >> So not really a “jolt every 3 years”. You have had 3 _total_ jolts over > >> the > >> course of 3

Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant...

2022-12-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt via Interest
On 21/12/22 06:38, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: On Montag, 19. Dezember 2022 16:59:41 CET Michael Jackson wrote: So not really a “jolt every 3 years”. You have had 3 _total_ jolts over the course of 30 years. Except them dropping support for pre-AVX, pre-AVX2 CPUs, Big Sur (macOS 11), relea

Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant...

2022-12-20 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Montag, 19. Dezember 2022 16:59:41 CET Michael Jackson wrote: > So not really a “jolt every 3 years”. You have had 3 _total_ jolts over the > course of 30 years. > Except them dropping support for pre-AVX, pre-AVX2 CPUs, constantly dropping support for GPUs older than 4 years all the bloody ti

Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant...

2022-12-19 Thread Turtle Creek Software
Turtle > Creek Software > *Date: *Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 10:24 AM > *To: *Qt Interest > *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

Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant...

2022-12-19 Thread Michael Jackson
Software Date: Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 10:24 AM To: Qt Interest 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

Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant...

2022-12-18 Thread Tuukka Turunen via Interest
: 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

Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant...

2022-12-18 Thread Turtle Creek Software
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

Re: [Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant for More than 95% of Mac Desktops

2022-12-16 Thread Nuno Santos
Hi, I totally subscribe this statement from Robert. We are starting to develop a new application with Qt 6.4.1. Qt 6 is still very bug prone and we will keep stumbling on them and you will probably keep releasing new version of Qt 6 rather fix versions of Qt 6.4.X Our users are very conservati

[Interest] Qt 6.5 Is Irrelevant for More than 95% of Mac Desktops

2022-12-16 Thread coroberti
Hi, Since Qt 6.5 drops Mac OS 10.15 Catalina, it apparently starts to be irrelevant for at least 95% of Mac Desktops. https://gs.statcounter.com/macos-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide Google Analytics data of visitors for some web-site, where I have access, also supports the above observati