From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yann E. MORIN Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:28:10 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Drop support for Qt 5.6? [was: [RFC 1/2] qt5: bump latest version to 5.10.0] In-Reply-To: References: <20180211161320.8864-1-gael.portay@savoirfairelinux.com> <20180211161320.8864-2-gael.portay@savoirfairelinux.com> <1518442630960-0.post@n4.nabble.com> <78215947-020b-17da-27d8-89bcdfe1c859@mind.be> <20180225172619.GA2276@scaer> <20180225175247.GB2276@scaer> Message-ID: <20180225182810.GC2276@scaer> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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/ Regards, Yann E. MORIN. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'