[Buildroot] Drop support for Qt 5.6? [was: [RFC 1/2] qt5: bump latest version to 5.10.0]
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Feb 25 18:28:10 UTC 2018
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.
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