On Friday, 23 June 2017 09:17:55 PDT Marc Mutz wrote: > The above argument makes no sense to me. What value does quoting > download numbers for 5.9, an LTS, have, to argue about dropping the > compiler from 5.10. Ever since we provide LTSs (yes, once), we drop > compilers in the version _after_ the LTS, which is kind of the natural > point to drop stuff.
The point is that in June 2017, 30% of the Windows downloads were for MSVC 2013. it doesn't matter that this is an LTS release or not: way too many people are using that compiler. We need to "wean" them off 2013, so I'm starting a note in the 5.9.1 changelog that it will be gone in 5.11 (one year advance notice): https://codereview.qt-project.org/198430 -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
