On Jul 9, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Ziller Eike <[email protected]> wrote:
> After a long transitioning period of 3 minor Qt 5 versions, I think that it > is time to think about dropping support for compiling Qt Creator with Qt 4. > The point, that it is nicely possible to slowly transition your application > from Qt 4 to Qt 5, has been made. > Qt 5 has matured, and the Qt 4 “fallback” should no longer be necessary. > Time to get rid of some ifdefs and simplify code. > Time to actually benefit from new features in Qt 5. (Mime database, new > connect syntax, <put your favorite Qt 5 feature here>) > > So, the proposal is to drop compilation with Qt4 with Qt Creator 3.3 (current > master branch). Qt Creator 3.2 will be the last version of Qt Creator to be > compilable with Qt 4. > Of course the Qt version that you can use to build your own applications > with, is untouched by that. In addition to the above: 1) newly written code (or code that changes anyhow) can use Qt 5 features, and doesn’t need to compile with Qt 4 2) clean up tasks (removing Qt 4/5 code branches, exchanging Latin1String by StringLiteral etc) or only done after Qt Creator 3.2 RC1 has been released That is to avoid unnecessary large and complicated merge conflicts from 3.2 -> master. Br, Eike > > -- > Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt > > Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin > Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, > HRB 144331 B > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator -- Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
