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Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, could easily port the remaining Qt5 apps to Qt6 by the deadline. But they rather wait for the community to do it for them.
by happosai 2y ago
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, could easily port the remaining Qt5 apps to Qt6 by the deadline. But they rather wait for the community to do it for them.
- NGRhodes 2y agoI suspect that means waiting for Debian to do it.
- eptcyka 2y agoPorting them out of tree would be worse than doing nothing.
- rlpb 2y agoI think you overestimate Canonical's size. What is happening though is really long support for older releases being provided by Canonical so you will be able to use older Qt 5 based apps on Ubuntu, security supported, until 2034, on Canonical's dime. With container technology (something that Canonical significantly funded, with Docker originally being based on Canonical-funded LXC) you'll be able to run those older apps on a newer base OS including future ones, too. Those are huge contributions to the user community you seem to be discounting. Disclosure: I work for Canonical. I don't speak for Canonical. But what I say above are simple verifiable and falsifiable facts and not really a matter of opinion.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoSeems like the root misstep is when extending server support to 10 years they extended GUI app support as well. The two probably shouldn't be linked and GUI support should end with the desktop edition at five years.
- pkaye 2y agoWhat about the other distros? Are they waiting on the community to do it for them?