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A comment on Qt 5.15 LTS.

Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by wooptoo on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:56AM (#23322444)
LTS releases are very welcome, more open source software should adopt this release style. So far the Linux kernel, NodeJS, LibreOffice, Django have LTS candidates. Would love Python to join that list.
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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by viraptor on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:01PM (#23325254)
What kind of lts term would you expect from python? Django is 3 years, libreoffice I can't find lts, node is 2 years, Linux is 6 years.

Python is supported for ~5 years (closer to 6 in practice) without any promise of an lts release. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/#lifespan Would you want more than that?

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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by wooptoo on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:08PM (#23328301)
Thanks, didn't realise Python releases are supported for so long. For Libreoffice the LTS release is called 'Still': https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/
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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by rat9988 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:58AM (#23322464)
Their LTS aren't available to non paying user I believe.
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Re:Qt 5.15 LTS by nly on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:59PM (#23331728)
The source code is freely available, and it's really not that hard to build.

https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.15/5.15.0/single/

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