On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just starting a new thread to get the attention of those that may have > missed > it in the other platform. > > The proposal is to drop VS 2012 support in Qt 5.7 already, instead of > supporting it in 5.7 only and dropping in 5.8. > > The rationale is that we need VS2012 for WEC 2013 support, but there's no > point in supporting that operating system in Qt 5.7. It suffices that it is > supported in Qt 5.6, which is the long-term release. In other words, > needing > WEC 2013 customers are better served by staying in Qt 5.6 than upgrading to > 5.7. > > Opinions? Objections? > > I'd like to see this answered BEFORE we release 5.6 so we can add this > interesting tidbit to the changelog. The 5.5.0 changelog said: > > - Qt 5.7 will begin requiring certain C++11 features in order to > compile. The minimum compiler versions for that release will be: > * Clang 3.2 (included in XCode 5.0) > * GCC 4.7 > * Intel C++ Composer XE 2013 SP1 (compiler version 14.0) > * Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (compiler version 17.0) > > Since that went out, we've already risen our minimum Clang required > version to > 3.4. > > > > > In summary Qt does not gain anything from pushing WEC2013 to 5.8: > > > > > > > > - Potential Qt Customers are not stranded due to 5.6 > > > > - WEC2013 in 5.8 doesn't really enable more projects > > > > - MS says it is dead and licenses are hard to come by > > > > - the currently visible project pipeline is rather dry on this > > > > platform > > > > > > > > *But* our C++11 offering is yet longer chained. > > > > > > So why are we bothering with VS2012 for Qt 5.7 then? Why wait until > 5.8? > > > > > > Let's drop it now. > > > > That is fine for me as well. As Alex wrote, most important is that Qt 5.6 > > LTS supports both WEC7 and WEC13 and that latest for Qt 5.8 we no longer > > have these to slow down adoption of C++11 and other planned changes. Works for me. Since Microsoft now has WEC2013 as deprecated legacy, makes sense for the long-term-support of Qt5.6 to be the last to support that platform. I don't see what it gains to keep MSVC2012 beyond Qt5.6. --charley
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