On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM Aleix Pol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM Sune Vuorela <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 2025-11-27, Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I feel we are not fullfilling this promise nowadays since [almost] no > > > > developer runs such old Qt and we don't have CI for it either so things > > > > that > > > > don't compile with older versions sneak up. Increasing the promise to > > > > yet > > > > another older Qt without extra CI for it feels like it would be an empty > > > > promise. > > > > > > I've been testing it so far with 6.7 with non-frequent intervals. > > > Occasionally a patch was needed. > > > > > > (Note: I only tested what's needed for Okular & Kleopatra, not the 'full > > > frameworks', but it get pretty good around) > > > > > > > It's been appreciated by some third-party ISVs, since they go out of > > their way to pay for Qt LTS and have considered using some KDE > > Frameworks (at least when I inform them of the existence of the > > Frameworks), so I would prefer if we could if reasonably possible. > > It would be useful if whoever appreciates us bending backwards to > accommodate these needs show some kind of appreciation. >
I have pointed it out to everyone I talk to about it. I've been actively encouraging both adoption of the Frameworks and supporting KDE in some way for offering these things to make things easier. > Our dependency management cannot be based on our anxious attachment > tendencies. > On some level, it already is, otherwise we wouldn't have these discussions periodically. The question is how far we need to go on it. > For what it's worth, Qt's LTS as they are nowadays are of very little > use for FOSS projects like ours. I'm aware. As it is, it's probably not that big of a deal to lock onto a Qt LTS until we have one that has QtWayland in base. Almost everyone is waiting for that for their big efforts to upgrade their Linux support, particularly in the CG/VFX community. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
