[Buildroot] Drop support for Qt 5.6? [was: [RFC 1/2] qt5: bump latest version to 5.10.0]
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Feb 26 08:22:13 UTC 2018
>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at 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.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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