[Development] FW: Alpha 2 this week or skip it

[techabc]

nice thing: the latest source package already have win32-msvc11 mkspec.
btw, Is there would win32-clang appears?

2012/6/1 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> On sexta-feira, 1 de junho de 2012 16.11.33, Matt Williams wrote:
>> On 1 June 2012 15:54, Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann at nokia.com> wrote:
>> > On 01/06/2012 15:30, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> >>> Allright, I take back everything. MS actually announced the RC of Visual
>> >>> Studio 2012 yesterday:
>> >>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/31/visual-studio-20
>> >>> 12-r c-available-now.aspx This seems to be identical to the formerly
>> >>> announced Visual Studio 11. Thus support is in Qt. Just use the
>> >>> win32-msvc11 mkspec.>>
>> >> We should rename the mkspec.
>> >
>> > I agree...if that's really the final product name. ;-)
>>
>> Don't forget that the "Microsoft Visual Studio" and "Microsoft Visual
>> C(++)" version number don't have to match. The Visual Studio number
>> are generally years (recently: 2005, 2008, 2010 and now 2012) while
>> Visual C(++) is numbered more normally (respectively: 8.0, 9.0 10.0
>> and now probably 11.0). So the new one could be Visual Studio 2012
>> with Visual C++ compiler 11.0. Also, in future Microsoft are planning
>> decoupling the IDE from the compiler so we should keep the mkspec
>> following the compiler I guess.
>
> Right. We've been doing it wrong all along, then: our mkspecs say "msvc" which
> is the compiler, but give the year as the complement.
>
> Maybe we should then start correcting this by keeping "msvc11".
>
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