[Development] Proposal: New list of Qt 5 reference / Tier 1 platforms

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Nov 13 15:29:30 CET 2012


On terça-feira, 13 de novembro de 2012 07.02.40, Charley Bay wrote:
> > Friedemann said he'd like to have msvc 2010 64 bit as reference platform,
> > maybe replacing msvc 2010 32 bit.
> 
> Really?  I would assume that 32-bit is still a significantly-large
> audience that we could *add* 64-bit, but that we likely would need to
> keep 32-bit (for a while).

Reference != Tier 1. I am with you that we can't stop supporting it. 32-bit 
needs to remain Tier 1.

But I wouldn't mind seeing 64-bit as a reference platform, whenever that is 
possible. 

> So, question:  How many developers target 64-bit Windows exclusively
> (not 32-bit-Windows)?  (Has that day come?)
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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