[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-psc] Clarification of outcome of PSC meeting 16/1

[Alexander Bruy]

Agreed with Nathan, 3.0 should come with Pytrhon 3 and Qt5,
or we will have QGIS 4 very soon after QGIS 3

2015-01-17 12:47 GMT+02:00 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:
> If we are planning on doing a 3.0 I think it really needs to come with
> Python 3 and Qt5 on all platforms (We can't have Python 2.7 and Python 3,
> that is just going to lead to more pain I think).  This is going to break
> all the plugins again, are we sure we can do that at this time?  If so we
> need to be really prepared for it.
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde
>> <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
>> > - no descision on 3.0 version taken yet
>> > - I think(!) that slight api changes for composer-code is allowed as
>> > somebody mentioned that that api is not so much used by plugins...
>>
>> As mentioned yesterday, I would rather not see "soft api breaks"
>> between minor releases because I think it's confusing and messy when
>> there could be clear rules that no api breaks are allowed between
>> minor releases. It's a question of how safe devs and users feel to
>> invest into developing tools for QGIS.
>>
>> > if you ask me personally I would not make 2.10 a 3.0 version as to me it
>> > looks better to have another 2.x version after a LTR as backporting
>> > fixes will be much harder when we start breaking api immediately   after
>> > a LTR.
>>
>> I agree and think that 2.12 could become 3.0 since there seems to be
>> some level of agreement that the February release should be the LTR
>> and conservative users might prefer a 3.2 LTR.
>>
>> I assume this should be discussed and decided on 26th.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Anita
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Alexander Bruy