[QGIS-Developer] QGIS 4.0 - let's start some early discussions!

[Raymond Nijssen]

Not sure about the changes in QT 6 but I think if the API breaks we 
should call it QGIS 4.

And when the API breaks anyway, I would love to have the geometry model 
improved and am willing to help.

Raymond


On 25-06-19 11:41, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Following conversation from https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/30234, I
> think it would be beneficial if we start the conversation happening
> about QGIS 4.0, and to throw some thoughts about timelines out there.
> 
> **Before anyone panics -- I'm expecting multi-year time frames here!
> But I think we should START this discussion, and have at least some
> idea of the time frames we're all aiming toward for a future 4.0
> release.**
> 
> For reference: Qt upstream has previously hinted at November 2020 for
> Qt 6, at which stage support for 5.x will be dropped. Discussions so
> far are moving toward Qt 6 being a "gentle" cleaning, so there's
> likely (hopefully?) not a lot we'll be forced to do to adapt to this.
> 
> I think we should aim for a similar goal -- a "gentle" API break, as
> opposed to the huge-clean-and-break-everything-we-possibly-can
> approach we took for 3.x (with good reason!).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Nyall
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