Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Please actively drop support for Qt5 wherever possible

[Daniel Buschke <damage@devloop.de>]

Am 02.01.25 um 12:13 schrieb Zoltan Puskas:
>>
>> So, removing Qt5 will break computers of many users, including my computer.
>> In the course of many years of existence of Qt5 a large number of useful
>> programs have been created; not all of them have been ported to Qt6. Are we
>> going to throw away all this wealth?
>>
> 
> Is there a timeline for killing QT5 completely or will just QT5 be stuck at the
> current version and patch level?

That's what I thought first, too. And I think that is the question which 
has to be answered before making a decision. As long as someone, who 
could be referred to as upstream, patches QT5, I would personally be 
fine with using QT5. But once that support drops, we are talking about 
an unsupported biiiiig piece of software which you don't want to have on 
your computer.

I searched the web and found a blog entry [1] talking about extended 
commercial(!) support ending mid 2025. But I don't know QT enough to 
qualify this information.

regards
Daniel


[1] 
https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-5.15-extended-support-for-subscription-license-holders