The mail did not state 5.12.x. Hence it was under the assumption "as always" with the next minor release.
Maurice > -----Original Message----- > From: Jani Heikkinen > Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:54 PM > To: Jesus Fernandez <jesus.fernan...@qt.io>; Maurice Kalinowski > <maurice.kalinow...@qt.io>; Simon Hausmann <simon.hausm...@qt.io> > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in > favour of MinGW 32-bit packages > > Hi! > > >>And I think we started providing binaries for a platform in 5.12.0 we cannot > stop providing them in 5.12.x. > I disagree. I agree we shouldn't do this kind of decisions without good > reasons but I don't see anything why we couldn't do this kind of changes if > there is good reasons. This is different issue than dropping support which we > can't do in patch level releases... > > If we want to start delivering mingw32bit (which were dropped but it seems > to be widely needed) then we need to drop something. It was proposed that > UWP x86 msvc 2015 prebuild binaries are replaced with mingw32 ones. PM > sent proposal to the ML and no-one disagreed. Then we did the decision to > do the switch... One needing UWP x86 for MSVC2015 can still compile those > by himself. > > br, > Jani > ________________________________________ > From: Jesus Fernandez > Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 1:06 PM > To: Jani Heikkinen; Maurice Kalinowski; Simon Hausmann > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in > favour of MinGW 32-bit packages > > > I think what Jesus refers to is patch level releases. > > Yes, I was referring to patch releases. > > And I think we started providing binaries for a platform in 5.12.0 we cannot > stop providing them in 5.12.x. > > > Best regards, > > Jesús > > ________________________________ > From: Jani Heikkinen > Sent: 06 February 2019 11:02 > To: Maurice Kalinowski; Simon Hausmann; Jesus Fernandez > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in > favour of MinGW 32-bit packages > > Hi, > > As Simon already wrote this is affecting only prebuilt binary packages we > deliver and nothing else. It is true that we usually haven't touched (at least > removed) those in patch level releases but I don't see any big issue with > doing this now; UWP x86 msvc 2015 isn't that widely used and feedback from > dropping mingw 32 bit is coming just from 5.12 series... > > br, > Jani > ________________________________________ > From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> on behalf of > Maurice Kalinowski <maurice.kalinow...@qt.io> > Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 11:32 AM > To: Simon Hausmann; Jesus Fernandez > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in > favour of MinGW 32-bit packages > > I think what Jesus refers to is patch level releases. > We've been changing binary packages for platforms within minor releases so > far, but not for patch level ones. > > Maurice > > > From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf Of > Simon Hausmann > Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 9:19 AM > To: Jesus Fernandez <jesus.fernan...@qt.io> > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in > favour of MinGW 32-bit packages > > Afaik this merely affects the binaries provided in the installer. It does not > result in any changes in the git repos. > Simon > > On 5. Feb 2019, at 16:03, Jesus Fernandez > <jesus.fernan...@qt.io<mailto:jesus.fernan...@qt.io>> wrote: > Can we remove a platform in a minor version? > > > > Best regards, > Jesús > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Harald Kjølberg > <harald.kjolb...@qt.io<mailto:harald.kjolb...@qt.io>> > Date: 05/02/2019 15:56 (GMT+01:00) > To: development@qt-project.org<mailto:development@qt-project.org> > Subject: Re: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in > favour of MinGW 32-bit packages > > > Hi, > > As no objections have been received, the proposed change will be > implemented, effective from Qt 5.12.2. > > > Cheers, > Harald > > From: Development <development-bounces@qt- > project.org<mailto:development-boun...@qt-project.org>> on behalf of > Harald Kjølberg <harald.kjolb...@qt.io<mailto:harald.kjolb...@qt.io>> > Date: Tuesday, 22 January 2019 at 14:36 > To: "development@qt-project.org<mailto:development@qt-project.org>" > <development@qt-project.org<mailto:development@qt-project.org>> > Subject: [Development] Intention of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour > of MinGW 32-bit packages > > > Hi, > > In order to improve transparency and visibility (after getting some > constructive and well deserved criticism): > > We have received a proposal of dropping UWP 2015 x86 builds in favour of > MinGW 32-bit packages. We looked at this today and agreed that this can be > done, and it should be our intention to do so. We will make the final decision > February 5th, and it will remain as described unless we get a lot of feedback > saying that we should do otherwise. > > For further details: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-73019 > > > > Regards, > Harald Kjølberg > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org<mailto:Development@qt-project.org> > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development