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

[Ziller Eike]

On 13 Nov 2012, at 14:17, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at digia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Since there hasn't been strong objections against the list I updated the page (starting with a more general note that Windows, Linux and Mac OS X are the supported platforms, as Thiago suggested) : http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-5 . That doesn't mean though that we can't extend it further ... here are some (personal) remarks to some comments:
> 
> 
> Friedemann said he'd like to have msvc 2010 64 bit as reference platform, maybe replacing msvc 2010 32 bit. Problems I see is that we don't test it right now in the CI system, and that e.g. qtwebkit has currently problems on windows 64 bit.
> 
> Tukka and Qi Liang wants to see OS X 10.8 (maybe replacing 10.6) in the list. The feasibility of this is probably something again for the CI system maintainers + mac platform maintainer (Morten) to answer…

IMO Mac OS X 10.8 must be Tier 1. Something like half a year after Qt 5.0.0, Mac OS 10.9 will be released and 10.6 becomes more and more irrelevant.

++ Eike

> Tukka also wants to see Windows 8 (maybe replacing XP). Maybe Friedemann (platform maintainer) can comment as platform maintainer whether that is a good idea?
> 
> Peter said RIM is working towards making Qt 5 working on the Blackberry 10 (ARM and x86) . I think it would be fine with adding it to the list of tier 1 platforms (even without CI), as long as it's part of the release process (testing, packaging etc) and also properly tested. 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Kai
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
>> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
>> Behalf Of Koehne Kai
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 5:08 PM
>> To: development at qt-project.org
>> Subject: [Development] Proposal: New list of Qt 5 reference / Tier 1
>> platforms
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> The list of reference & Tier 1 platforms at http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt-
>> 5#Platforms is somewhat out of date ... Here is a new proposal
>> 
>> Reference Platforms:
>> 
>> We have the following platform configurations as reference platforms for Qt
>> 5.0:
>> 
>> PLATFORM                      CONFIGURATION                             COMPILER
>> linux-x86-32-gcc-x11          Ubuntu Linux 11.10 ×86 32 bit, X11        as
>> provided
>> linux-x86-64-gcc-x11          Ubuntu Linux 11.10 ×86 64 bit, X11        as
>> provided
>> windows-7-32-msvc2010-angle   Microsoft Windows 7 32 bit, ANGLE
>> MSVC2010-SP1 32-bit
>> osx-10.7-64                   Apple Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" Cocoa 64 bit   as provided
>> 
>> 
>> Tier 1 platforms:
>> 
>> In addition to the reference platform configurations, we support the
>> following configurations on Tier 1 level.
>> 
>> PLATFORM                      CONFIGURATION                             COMPILER
>> windows-7-64-msvc2010-angle   Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit, ANGLE
>> MSVC2010-SP1 64-bit
>> windows-7-32-msvc2010-opengl  Microsoft Windows 7 32 bit, OpenGL
>> MSVC2010-SP1 32-bit
>> windows-7-64-msvc2010-opengl  Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit, OpenGL
>> MSVC2010-SP1 64-bit
>> windows-7-32-mingw-builds     Microsoft Windows XP Windows 7 32 bit
>> gcc 4.7 (MinGW-builds)
>> windows-xp-32-msvc2008        Microsoft Windows XP SP3 32 bit           MSVC
>> 2008 32-bit
>> osx-10.6-64                   Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Cocoa 64 bit          as provided
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Remarks:
>> 
>> Before you shoot, check http://qt-project.org/groups/qt-contributors-
>> summit-
>> 2011/wiki/Qt5ProductDefinition#4582cf86974b397c8f3a2ed2fd502f8c to see
>> what we agreed upon back then what the requirements of a 'reference
>> platform' and 'Tier 1 platform' are, specifically  that they are in tested by the
>> CI system, and are available as alpha, beta, final packages.
>> 
>> windows-7-64-msvc2010, windows-7-64-msvc2010-angle, windows-7-32-
>> mingw-builds aren't checked in the CI system right now. Still I think they are
>> important enough to deserve an exception, and remain in Tier 1.
>> 
>> I understood that whether we can keep osx-10.6-64 bit as Tier 1 platform for
>> qtwebkit is yet unclear.
>> 
>> Finally, I don't know what to do  with the *wayland, *mips, *icc platforms in
>> the current version of the page.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Kai
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