On Friday, 28 April 2017 09:51:58 -03 Benjamin TERRIER wrote: > 2017-04-28 14:23 GMT+02:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: > > On Friday, 28 April 2017 03:56:22 -03 Jani Heikkinen wrote: > >> Yes, MSVC 2017 is already supported in Qt 5.9 and we are trying to get > >> pre-built binaries available before final release; let's see if we can > >> make it happen > > > > I remember a discussion about whether we needed MSVC 2017 binaries in the > > first place, since they're binary compatible with MSVC 2015 and we don't > > have "win32-msvc2015" anymore, which concluded we did. I don't remember > > the reason. > > > > Does anyone? > > I recall this (it's from you): > > We can't drop it from the CI. I don't think we can drop it from the build > > packages either, since usually you compile with the oldest you plan to > > use. So if you're correct and VS2017 is binary-compatible, then we are > > already providing the packages for VS2017. > > http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2017-February/028768.html
That's the opposite: that's the argument of why we should not need a VS2017 binary. I'm asking if anyone remembers the argument why we should. -- 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