[Qgis-developer] Release schedule discussion - again

[Nathan Woodrow]

I don't think having Qt5 on OSX is so much the issue but the change the
PyQt5/Python3 as that has the larger impact because it changes all the
plugins.

- Nathan

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Larry Shaffer <larrys at dakotacarto.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Il 14/10/2015 13:58, Larry Shaffer ha scritto:
>>
>> > With regards to Mac and Qt4 support, it may be that even an LTR 2.14
>> > release will have a very short lifespan, given that the next Mac OS
>> > upgrade will probably significantly break Qt4; and, I seriously doubt
>> > there will be people wanting to resurrect Qt4 again.
>>
>> so, wouldn't this be a strong argument against 2.14 as an LTR?
>> I understand the same will hold true for Debian/Ubuntu as well.
>>
>
> Touché, Paolo. You are probably right here, though there are still a
> couple of unknowns at this point.
>
> By "very short lifespan" I am referring to the next Mac OS (10.12?), which
> not everyone will use. It is unknown at this time whether Qt4 can be made
> to support it (maybe we get lucky again and it doesn't break Qt4 much
> more). On the other hand, I still get requests to support 10.6 (from 2009)
> for nightlies.
>
> If we look at some basic Mac OS adoption trends by users [0], it is
> apparent that they adopt the latest OS much more so than users of Windows.
> However, it is unclear how much this reflects the general Mac QGIS user's
> OS adoption rate (guessing it is roughly equivalent).
>
> Basically, as Nyall has pointed out, something needs done for Mac ASAP,
> not 4 or 8 or 12 months from now. Towards a solution, I would like to start
> providing a Qt5-based nightly for Mac (after 2.12 is released).
>
> [0]
> https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0&qpsp=2015&qpnp=1&qptimeframe=Y
>
> Regards,
>
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota
>
>
>> all the best.
>> --
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