Den tis 28 jan. 2020 kl 08:01 skrev Elvis Stansvik <elvst...@gmail.com>: > > Den tis 28 jan. 2020 kl 03:19 skrev Thiago Macieira > <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: > > > > On segunda-feira, 27 de janeiro de 2020 14:48:17 PST Alexander Akulich > > wrote: > > > I would expect a significant negative effect on the quality of Qt > > > shipped in Linux distributions and thus negative effect on the > > > Qt-based applications and Qt reputation. > > > > That is debatable since most Linux distributions do not align with the Qt > > LTSes. Kevin's question of 5.15 support while 6.0 is coming is valid, but > > for > > all other LTSes, open source Linux distros seem to choose whichever version > > was latest at the time they reached feature-freeze. > > > > Current versions in: > > * Debian stable: 5.11.3 > > * Debian oldstable: 5.7.1 > > * Fedora 31: 5.12.5 > > * Fedora 30: 5.12.1 > > * Fedora 29: 5.11.1 > > * Fedora 28: 5.10.1 > > * CentOS 8.1: 5.11.1 > > * openSUSE 15: 5.9.4 (15.1 now has 5.9.7) > > * openSUSE 42.3: 5.6.2 > > * openSUSE 42.2: 5.6.1 > > * (K)Ubuntu 19.10: 5.12.4 > > * Ubuntu 18.10: 5.11.1 > > * Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: 5.9.5 > > * Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: 5.5.1 > > * KDE Neon: 5.13.2 > > * Manjaro 18.1.0: 5.13.0 > > > > There are a couple of alignments with Qt LTS above but they could be > > coincidences. openSUSE 15 was released around 6 months after the 5.10.0 > > release (and less than 3 after 5.10.1, which is when they seem to make > > upgrades) and Ubuntu 18.04 was a month earlier than openSUSE. I thought > > Fedora > > 31 was trying to align, but then I went to search for the current version > > and > > F32-in-development has already upgraded out of the LTS to 5.13.2. > > > > Ubuntu snapshot for 20.04 is on 5.12.6. That seems to me to be the only > > legitimate, intentional alignment on a Qt LTS. If that's confirmed, it would > > be the first, after 4 years of having LTS releases. > > I think they are intending to try to get Qt 5.14.1 packaged for Ubuntu > 20.04. At least that's what I've seen from the discussions in > #ubuntu-qt on freenode. So they will be de-aligning if they get that > done on time.
Forgot links to back up my claim: Dec 12: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2019/12/12/%23ubuntu-qt.html Jan 8: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2020/01/08/%23ubuntu-qt.html Elvis > > Elvis > > > > > So it's completely understandable to have concluded that the LTS releases > > weren't useful to Linux distributions. > > > > -- > > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > > Software Architect - Intel System Software Products > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
