On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 17:44, Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilshei...@qt.io> wrote:
> > > > On 8 Dec 2020, at 16:28, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> > wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 01:55:12 PST Giuseppe D'Angelo via > Development > > wrote: > >> Raising the bar: apart from some cases of API problems in 6.0, would it > >> be feasible to do a BC break after every LTS? We might find more > >> annoyances we want to fix. > > > > So long LTSs don't happen more often than every 4 years. > > Hm, every third release is an LTS: 5.9, 5.12, 5.15, perhaps 6.2. > > So, that’s every 1.5 years if we stick to the current release cadence. > > As a Qt developer I find this very tempting. But it also means that the > whole world has to rebuild all the Qt things every 18 months, which is > perhaps not great from an eco-system perspective. > > > > Aren't LTS a commercial only thing now? So doing a BC after an LTS isn't much different than doing it after any other version for distro maintainers and the open source world in general. Benjamin
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