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Aren't you fine if you stay on the latest release? LTS releases are good for industrial or commercial applications were you need to rock solid stability... and
by Pet_Ant 6y ago
Aren't you fine if you stay on the latest release? LTS releases are good for industrial or commercial applications were you need to rock solid stability... and should be paying to support development. For end users latest release should be fine.
The way I see it you either pay for the library through money or by constantly moving forward with your APIs and doing updates to work with the latest version. If you are anchored to an old version and not paying, you are deadweight. While I'm not clear on the details of Qt's plan, but in the JDK space it makes perfect sense where you have a large contingent of vocal non-contributing that holds back large libraries for updating which slows the evolution of the platform.
- chaz6 6y agoThe only way to stay on Qt 5.x (as Qt 6.x is not yet ready for production use since the ABI is not stable and many modules like QtWebEngine are missing) would be to fork it, since they will no longer accept patches from the community. Either that, or get every Qt distributer (e.g. Debian, OpenSUSE, Manjaro, etc) to accept your patch.
- jcelerier 6y ago> LTS releases are good for industrial or commercial applications were you need to rock solid stability... from what I could see corporations just buy LTS contracts to be able to ask for bugfixes if the need arises - I've seen products where Qt 5.12.2/3 was used even when the latest was 5.12.8
- nly 6y agoMost users want stability. If I shipped an app with Qt 5.12 dlls I would to bump to 5.15 and force potential bugs on users in a minor release. Qt's track record on user facing bugs just isn't good enough