Den sön 22 jan. 2023 kl 23:08 skrev Elvis Stansvik <elvst...@gmail.com>: > > > MSVC not-the-latest: are you using it? why? > > Yes, using VS 2019. > > I can only speak for us, but we simply haven't had any really > compelling reason to upgrade our compiler. > > Turning the question around: If you have no need for the > features/improvements that a newer compiler would bring, why would you > upgrade it? It's a non-zero amount of work to switch. > > In many places, if you can't make a (somewhat) direct connection to > something revenue-generating, such as a client case, it's not going to > get done unless there's unexpected extra time available. > > That said, we would have no problem with Qt dropping support for VS > 2019. We are using a somewhat old 5.12 version of Qt anyway, mostly > for same reason as we are not using latest compiler. > > So perhaps better wait for someone that is staying on top of the > latest Qt to give their view. I can imagine that there that do that to
*that there are those that do that > get improvements/bug fixes, but which rarely update their compiler. > It's quite rare to be affected by a compiler bug after all. > > Elvis > > Den sön 22 jan. 2023 kl 17:19 skrev Thiago Macieira > <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: > > > > In this case, MSVC 2019, which is still supported. > > > > I'm trying to understand why people don't upgrade their Visual Studios. In > > the > > past, they used to use different and binary-incompatible VC runtimes, so > > large > > projects often needed to stick to a single version because of different > > teams > > needing to otherwise have a flag day. > > > > But that hasn't been the case since MSVC 2015. So, are you still sticking to > > older MSVC releases years after there's a new one? Why? > > -- > > Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com > > Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > > Interest mailing list > > Interest@qt-project.org > > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest