[oe] [meta-qt5] Keep Qt 5.6.x

[Martin Jansa]

Hi Changhyeok,

do we have a volunteer to maintain it?

As you know, it's possible to use meta-qt5/krogoth (with 5.6 Qt) together
with newer Yocto releases, currently it doesn't even need any difficult
work arounds to make it compatible.

If there is someone volunteering to maintain some meta-qt5/master-5.6
branch, I would accept the patches. But I don't want to maintain 2 sets of
.patch files for many qt* recipes in the same branch (and also some qt*
projects are available in only one of these versions). I was maintaining
multiple versions in the same branch before and it was quite painful, it's
quite a mess even with one version and I would prefer to spend my free time
on something else.

Regards,

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 3:03 AM, Changhyeok Bae <changhyeok.bae at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi maintainers
>
> Qt 5.6 is LTS version and not GPL3 license.
> So why don't you keep v5.6.x in master branch?
> Many companies, opensource projects and developers would like to use Qt
> v5.6 in master branch to use it with latest yocto release.
>
> Thanks
> Changhyeok
>