[Development] Platform / compiler support

[Atlant Schmidt]

Thiago:

> Configure-time tests are very hard to write for Qt.

  Just compile something that is dependent upon the
  compiler features.

  If "TestForVariadcMacros.cpp" fails to compile, the
  user will probably figure it out! ;-)

                             Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: development-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org [mailto:development-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 07:27
To: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Platform / compiler support

On Tuesday, 8 de November de 2011 06:39:23 Atlant Schmidt wrote:
>   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.

Configure-time tests are very hard to write for Qt. I doubt we'll do this...

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