On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 14:33, Jani Heikkinen via Development <development@qt-project.org> wrote: > > What kind of performance issues are we talking about? > > It takes quite a time to show all releases when you select 'archive' > category. With latest online installer this is already much better than > earlier but it still takes some time and it's a bit annoying...
While I'm vaguely aware of various challenges in trying to apply filterings and mappings to the available-package metadata that the installation system has, I would highly recommend exploring some technical alternatives to solve that problem. I would think we could, even with the limitations of the current system, change that operation so that it shows a first fistful of archived releases, and separately allows showing all of them. Furthermore, the slowness of that operation suggests that that view of the installer populates much more model data than it actually really needs for displaying the available releases. I have no particular problem removing e.g 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2. Good riddance. 5.12 is a completely different case, though. And such removals would really be temporary measures, over time we are just going to end up with the same problem. So yeah, overall, I'd like us to investigate the possibilities of providing filtered views that can be multi-step-expanded to show more of the available options, rather than just outright removing the older releases as a choice. -- Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
