On søndag 2. juni 2019 11:50:35 CEST Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > > On 1 Jun 2019, at 16:12, Alberto Mardegan <ma...@users.sourceforge.net> > > wrote: > > On 5/31/19 4:24 PM, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > > > >> Nobody is forced to move to Qt 6 right away; Qt 5.15 is an LTS with > >> three years maintenance. We are not expecting lots of people to jump > >> on Qt 6.0 anyway (because .0, and not an LTS release anyway), so when > >> an API was marked as deprecated makes perhaps not that much > >> difference “in real time”. > > > > > > Three years is not a lot of time when moving between major releases. It > > would be nice if the last LTS release in a major release series were > > supported for a longer time (5 years?). > > > > Ciao, > > > > Alberto > > > > How long did it take y’all to move from Qt 4.x to Qt 5.x? > > The move from Qt 2 to Qt 3, and from Qt 3 to Qt 4, is brought up as examples > of bad experiences (but then let’s also consider how terrible Qt would be > today if we would still have to drag Qt 2 or Qt 3 concepts around with us). > But if the goal for Qt 6 is to be rather comparable to the Qt 4 to Qt 5, > how bad would it be? > Of course, milage will vary depending on the nature and size of your > codebase, and I’m sure my colleagues in The Qt Company sales would be happy > to discuss support options, when the time comes.
I don't think there's a conflict here: If we had frequent major version bumps, I'd still expect some of these (one version of each major)? To be the LTS version for that major, which will be supported for quite a long time. We can give people ample time to move forward, while still creating new majors. And I think the smaller the time delta between major releases, the easier it is to move forward. Cheers, Frederik > Cheers, > Volker > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > 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
