> On 8 Jun 2017, at 08:37, Ville Voutilainen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 8 June 2017 at 09:23, Lars Knoll <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'd like to propose raising the minimum version for GCC to 4.8.1, which is >>> the >>> first C++11 complete version, or higher. The reason for this is actually to >>> drop GCC 4.7 and earlier, which have a few bugs with their C++11 support. >>> GCC >>> 4.7 has been the minimum since Qt 5.7.0 and is now 5 years old. >> >> I'm not necessarily against it, as I believe we need to move forward with >> our compilers. But I am unsure how much sense this makes as long as we're >> still supporting VC++ 2013. >> >> And dropping GCC 4.7 would imply dropping support for QNX 6. > > I'll make the observation that we just released an LTS release that > will support QNX 6 > until the next LTS comes out.
Sure, it's still important that we all know about the possible side effects of dropping a compiler version before making the decision. IMO, keeping VC++ 2013 while dropping gcc 4.7 doesn't make too much sense. We either keep both or drop both. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
