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

[shane.kearns at accenture.com]

> Win8 support would be nice to add, but please do not drop WinXP.
> MS may be dropping official, public support for WinXP in 2014; but it will still be around for a very long time.

> Ben

Are you referring to XP for embedded? (which survives until 2016)
I'd strongly advise anyone not to use a operating system for which there are no security updates on a general purpose machine.
While you may need to continue supporting products based on XP embedded, would that include putting new releases of Qt on them?

However, if & when we do decide to remove XP from the CI system it should be replaced with vista (as the oldest supported windows version).
We shouldn't test only W7 and W8.

My view would be that XP should not be a tier 1 platform for new releases when MS discontinues extended support.
It should still be tested for patch releases of already released Qt versions.

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