> On 24 Aug 2018, at 08:03, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since we're talking about macOS 10.11 and I came across the Windows support > lifetime pages, I'm posting this for future reference. > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet > > Windows 7 ends its Extended Support lifecycle on January 14, 2020, roughly a > year and a half from now. If we keep our current release cycle, the current > release at that time will be 5.14. Or, put differently, Windows 7 will be out > of support when 5.15 launches. > > We may want to drop support for it in one of those two releases. We should > announce we're doing so one year before the fact. So if we'd like to drop in > 5.14, we should include the announcement in the 5.12 changelog.
We know that quite some users stay on unsupported versions of Windows for quite a while. I wonder whether it wouldn’t be easiest in this case to then drop Windows 7 with Qt 6.0 in Autumn 2020 (ie. in the release after 5.15). Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
