> Von: Development [mailto:development-bounces+helmut.muelner=gmail....@qt-project.org] Im Auftrag von Thiago Macieira > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. November 2016 09:22
> On quarta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2016 08:10:36 PST Jake Petroules wrote: > > > The currently sold CPU's are not really the measurement stick here. > > > The measurement stick is actually installed Win 32 systems. > > Yes, but what's the 32-bit Windows install base which is capable of > > running Qt? We only support Windows 7 and above now, so I can't > > imagine it's very many. Perhaps we should try to find some metrics to base our decision on. > That's an important point: since Qt 5.7, we no longer support anything older than Windows 7. > That was the first Windows with decent 64-bit support and computers with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and now 10 tended > to come with the 64-bit version pre-installed. > So the chances of users running 64-bit Windows are much higher now. > We only have to contend with pre-2007 computers that have been upgraded since. > And netbooks, since many of the first and second generation Atom came with their 64-bit capabilities fused off. > (Ultrabooks are always 64-bit and actually use Core processors, not Atom) That is not relevant here. I am using Windows 10 (64-bit) but I am still forced (because of 3rt-party-libraries) to develop 32-bit-Qt-applications. Even if the operating system is 64-bit there can be a lot of 32-bit application, e.g. VS 2013 and VS 2015 are still 32-bit applications. Helmut Mülner _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
