On 21 Jan 2014, at 14:25, Jake Petroules 
<jake.petrou...@petroules.com<mailto:jake.petrou...@petroules.com>>
 wrote:

On Jan 21, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Sorvig Morten 
<morten.sor...@digia.com<mailto:morten.sor...@digia.com>> wrote:

On 21 Jan 2014, at 11:51, Simon Hausmann 
<simon.hausm...@digia.com<mailto:simon.hausm...@digia.com>> wrote:

That depends on how much time we spend releasing Qt :)

I realize that if I’m the only one who want’s to keep supporting 10.6 then 
that’s not going to work. The most important thing to me is to have a somewhat 
predictable deprecation plan. For example (and at the risk of making this 
example “the plan”):

5.3 - Remove support from binary packages.
5.4 - 10.6 support is deprecated.
5.5? - Remove support.

I also think that it looks reasonable, but I would also find announcing now 
that 5.4 drops 10.6 support ok (I don't see this big need for "deprecated but 
still there" if one knows long enough before).
Anyway another thing (with ARC support) is also C++11.
Is it clear when we will begin to require C++11?
Because supporting C++11 in 10.6 is *very* tricky (one might try to ship 
libc++, but system library will still use libstdc++ and I am not sure if binary 
compatibility with the version shipped in 10.6 is guaranteed.

Fawzi

I think this is relatively reasonable. By 5.5 (mid-2015, right?) we will have 
or almost have OS X 10.11 which is three versions into the OS X free pricing 
model. Given the fast uptake of OS X Mavericks in just a few short months, by 
then it seems to me that it will be the ideal time to say goodbye to the last 
of the Leopards. The gap between Snow Leopard and Lion is also probably the 
most technically significant between any two recent versions of OS X, so when 
it's 10.7's time to go we may not even need any code changes.
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