On Sun, 2 Jun 2019 at 13:59, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Jun 2019 at 10:10, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <k...@carewolf.com> wrote: > [snip] > > > > > I have no problem with breaking ABI more often but allowing it in every > > minor > > releases probably goes to far. Perhaps every second LTS (every 3 years), > > might > > be better. > > That would work as long as related applications (moc, linguist stuff, > etc) remain either **fully** backwards compatible within the major > version *or* they are also marked with the minor. For example instead > of shipping moc6 one could ship moc6.<API/ABI stable LTS>, like let's > say moc60, moc66 or alike.
s/would/might/. It will still mean that distros will need to ship every LTS for at least ~4 years, or force lot of applications to get removed from their archives. We still have Qt4 around... _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
