From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Drop support for Qt 5.6? [was: [RFC 1/2] qt5: bump latest version to 5.10.0]
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:22:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woz0rwi2.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180225182810.GC2276@scaer> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:28:10 +0100")
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> writes:
> Nimai, All,
> On 2018-02-25 18:10 +0000, Nimai Mahajan spake thusly:
>> That's fine, but keep in mind this will never be as stable as their LTS
>> releases, where they are constantly fixing bugs (5.9 is supposed to be
>> supported til 2020, whereas 5.11 will come out in May and deprecate 5.10).
>> Latest branch just keeps getting new > features thrown in it without fixes
>> to existing ones.
> 5.6 is supposed to be maintained for three years after being introduced,
> that is 2016-03-16 [0], which brings us toward 2019-03-16 as well, so a
> bit more than a year still. ;-)
> [0] https://www1.qt.io/qt-news/20578/
Correct, so this IMHO means we need to move to 5.9 for the LTS version
by the time we release Buildroot 2019.02, unless something changes - But
until then I would prefer to keep 5.6.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-26 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-11 16:13 [Buildroot] [RFC 0/2] Qt5 bump latest version to 5.10.0 Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-11 16:13 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 1/2] qt5: " Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-12 13:37 ` nimaim
2018-02-25 17:06 ` [Buildroot] Drop support for Qt 5.6? [was: [RFC 1/2] qt5: bump latest version to 5.10.0] Arnout Vandecappelle
2018-02-25 17:17 ` Baruch Siach
2018-02-25 17:26 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-02-25 17:42 ` Nimai Mahajan
2018-02-25 17:52 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-02-25 18:10 ` Nimai Mahajan
2018-02-25 18:28 ` Yann E. MORIN
2018-02-25 18:29 ` Nimai Mahajan
2018-02-26 8:22 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2018-02-26 11:50 ` Nimai Mahajan
2018-02-26 12:14 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-02-26 12:17 ` Nimai Mahajan
2018-02-26 20:45 ` Nimai Mahajan
2018-02-26 8:18 ` Peter Korsgaard
2018-02-12 21:07 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 1/2] qt5: bump latest version to 5.10.0 Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-11 16:13 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 2/2] qt5webengine: select libnss Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-12 21:19 ` Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-11 22:11 ` [Buildroot] [RFC 0/2] Qt5 bump latest version to 5.10.0 Julien CORJON
2018-02-12 18:20 ` Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-12 22:20 ` Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-13 15:23 ` Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-13 16:35 ` Gaël PORTAY
2018-02-19 22:58 ` Gaël PORTAY
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