> On 4 Jul 2022, at 11:17, Eike Ziller <eike.zil...@qt.io> wrote: > > Hi all, > > we would like to require Qt 6.2 or later for building Qt Creator itself going > forward in master branch, which is Qt Creator 9 and later. > > We’ll have released 3 versions of Qt Creator based on Qt 6 then (starting > with Qt Creator 6) by then, Qt 6 has matured and has its first LTS version > with Qt 6.2. It starts to happen that fixes are done in Qt 6 that are no > longer backported to Qt 5, and removing support for Qt 5 will allow us to > remove hacks and glue code that enabled us to compile against both Qt 5 and > Qt 6. > > This by extension means that the required compilers increase to GCC 9 and > MSVC 2019 (from GCC 7 and MSVC 2017). > And the supported platforms increase to Ubuntu 20.04, RHEL/CentOS 8, and > macOS 10.14,
and Windows 10 > which they already are for our prebuilt binary packages, since these are > already Qt 6 based. > > The corresponding patch is on Gerrit for comments: > https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt-creator/qt-creator/+/420047 > > The Qt versions that we support for developing your own applications with, > are of course not affected by this change. > > Br, Eike > > -- > Eike Ziller > Principal Software Engineer > > The Qt Company GmbH > Erich-Thilo-Straße 10 > D-12489 Berlin > eike.zil...@qt.io > http://qt.io > Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, > Juha Varelius, Jouni Lintunen > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, > HRB 144331 B > > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > Qt-creator@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator -- Eike Ziller Principal Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Erich-Thilo-Straße 10 D-12489 Berlin eike.zil...@qt.io http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Jouni Lintunen Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator
