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> As for Krita, we’re using Qt 5.12 for our binaries because we carry a lot of patches that would need porting to Qt 5.13 or 5.14 and because Qt 5.13 turned out
by slezyr 7y ago
> As for Krita, we’re using Qt 5.12 for our binaries because we carry a lot of patches that would need porting to Qt 5.13 or 5.14 and because Qt 5.13 turned out to be very, very buggy. For Krita, using a stable version of Qt that gets bug fixes is pretty important, and that will be a problem, because we will lose access to those versions.
https://valdyas.org/fading/software/about-qt-offering-changes-2020/ https://valdyas.org/fading/software/about-qt-offering-change...
You need a LTS of some kind if latest version is buggy as hell.
- royjacobs 7y agoWhy are these patches not being upstreamed, though?
- makomk 7y agoYeah, and I imagine this is only going to get worse from now on. The Qt Company now have much less incentive to make the open source versions reliable and usable, because their commercial customers aren't relying on that code anymore, and something of a financial incentive to make them unsuitable for anything except developing Qt itself in order to force people onto the commercial packages.
- bluGill 7y agoCommercial customers expect a stable version to use eventually. They also are interested in some of the new features that come with version next and so will update once in a while. Some commercial customers stick to LTS releases, but not all do.