[Development] Clarification on Mac 10.6 support for Qt 5.2

Tor Arne Vestbø tor.arne.vestbo at digia.com
Wed Jun 5 15:49:53 CEST 2013


On 6/5/13 12:49 , Gustavsen Richard wrote:
>> From reading this thread, it seems that 10.6 support is pretty
>> important. But right now you need to build Qt from sources yourself
>> to get it.
> Is this good enough? It sounds like it would be better if the binary
> package continued with 10.6 support when so many users still has that
> version. Those that need C++11 and don't need to target 10.6 could
> still build Qt themselves (rather than the opposite)...

I agree that the SDK should perhaps span to include 10.6 deployment support.

Technically that's up to the people building the binary SDK packages, if 
they configure with -no-c++11 or not. Qt's configure will by default 
detect if it's supported, and adjusts the deployment target accordingly.

tor arne



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