[Development] Platform / compiler support

[Atlant Schmidt]

Folks:

  With regard to compiler support, I would like to make
  one small suggestion:

  When you settle on the set of "enhanced" features that
  compilers must support to allow use with Qt, please design,
  as the *VERY FIRST PORTIONS* of the Qt build procedure, a
  small series of programs that deliberately test for and
  stress those features.

  That way, if the build blows up at that early point, the
  user will have a good indication that their compiler is
  unsupported because the "foo" feature is missing from
  their compiler (or that they forget to throw the switch
  to turn it on or what-have-you).

  And if those very early compilations succeed, then (if
  the tests were designed properly) there's a very good
  chance that the rest of the Qt build won't fail for
  compiler-dependent reasons.

                             Atlant


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