Re: [Development] Suggestion - Remove Windows 7 as supported development host

2018-11-14 Thread Harald Kjølberg
Hi, Thanks for all the feedback. It seems that Windows 7 is still standing tall. The initial idea was that we probably could remove it, as regular support for Windows 7 ended in 2015. However, from the feedback it is clear that the cost of removing it is greater than the gain. Suggestion

Re: [Development] Suggestion - Remove Windows 7 as supported development host

2018-11-13 Thread André Pönitz
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 01:13:28PM +, Harald Kjølberg wrote: > Hi, > > > Referring to: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70891 > > The suggestion is to remove Windows 7 as a supported development host, > but keep it as a target. From the numbers I have access to, more than > 55% of the

Re: [Development] Suggestion - Remove Windows 7 as supported development host

2018-11-13 Thread coroberti .
Hi, So where to develop? At Win-10 spying everything? Since Win-7 is with paid updates due for 4 more years, please continue to support it. Thanks in advance. Regards, Robert On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 3:13 PM Harald Kjølberg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Referring to:

Re: [Development] Suggestion - Remove Windows 7 as supported development host

2018-11-13 Thread Zoltán Lutor
Hi, "From the numbers I have access to, more than 55% of the users are on Windows 10" - what about the 45%? Is there any reason why to drop W7 as dev. platform? I use it as my main developer platform... Telling the truth I use it at my home for general purpose, too, no plan to upgrade to W10 in

Re: [Development] Suggestion - Remove Windows 7 as supported development host

2018-11-13 Thread Henry Skoglund
Hi, you mean I will not able to use Qt Creator on my Windows 7 machine after 5.12? Please do not toss Windows 7 out of the window this fast. Don't know about MSVC2021 yet, but MSVC2019 is the same 32-bit flavored app that MSVC2017 is and MSVC2019 will run on Windows 7 SP1, i.e. I will be able

Re: [Development] Suggestion - Remove Windows 7 as supported development host

2018-11-13 Thread Oliver Wolff
Hi Harald, On 13/11/2018 14:13, Harald Kjølberg wrote: Hi, Referring to: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70891 The suggestion is to remove Windows 7 as a supported development host, but keep it as a target. From the numbers I have access to, more than 55% of the users are on Windows

[Development] Suggestion - Remove Windows 7 as supported development host

2018-11-13 Thread Harald Kjølberg
Hi, Referring to: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-70891 The suggestion is to remove Windows 7 as a supported development host, but keep it as a target. From the numbers I have access to, more than 55% of the users are on Windows 10. However, I would like to get feedback on this in case