I don't have big objections to that neither, given that MS isn't going forward with WEC2013.
At the same time I wonder if it gives us a lot, as 5.7 is already in feature freeze. The main advantage would be on the CI side where we could drop the compiler. Cheers, Lars On 25/02/16 17:20, "Development on behalf of Thiago Macieira" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany....@qt-project.org on behalf of thiago.macie...@intel.com> 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. >-- >Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > >_______________________________________________ >Development mailing list >Development@qt-project.org >http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
