Hi Jani, +1 from my side for doing the move to 64bit MinGW in two steps.
Cheers, Lars > On 21 Dec 2017, at 11:37, Jani Heikkinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > There is open suggestion (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-35288) to > start delivering MinGW 64 bit pre-built binaries. This has been requested > several times in mails, blog comments etc. We have discussed this earlier, > last time with Qt 5.10 where I proposed that we could replace 32 bit MinGW > with 64 bit one. But at that time we weren't ready for that. And it seems 32 > bit MinGW package is still quite widely used, see > http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2017-December/031674.html . > > With Qt 5.11 it seems we can finally drop MSVC2013 so we could "temporarily" > add MinGW 64 bit pre-build binaries in our packages in addition to 32 bit > ones and remove 32 bit MinGW pre-built binaries from 5.12 onwards. Making > this decision now would complete this discussion finally and still give users > time to move from 32 bit to 64 bit ones... > > br, > Jani > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
