[Development] Clarification on Mac 10.6 support for Qt 5.2

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 7 de junho de 2013 10.22.56, Koehne Kai wrote:
> Situation with Qt 5.1 as it is
>  - Binary installer is compiled with OS X 10.7
>  - You cannot deploy with them to 10.6
>  - If you want to deploy to 10.6 without QtWebKit you have to compile Qt
> yourself, on OS X 10.6, or on OS X 10.7 and above with -no-c++11 (to be
> verified) - If you want to deploy to 10.6 including QtWebKit you have to
> compile Qt yourself, on OS X 10.6

You forgot one detail here:
 - QtLocation does not compile on Mac (as of yesterday morning)

Similarly, any user program that tries to compile a library with CONFIG -= qt 
with another that is CONFIG += qt will fail.

We need a fix somewhere.

> My suggestion:
>  - Leave Qt 5.1.0 as it is right now, move on with the release process
>  - Investigate providing an additional binary installer with Qt compiled
> 10.6 (e.g. with 5.1.1) 
> - Thoroughly document the problem for people
> compiling their own Qt

I'd rather our default package produced binaries that work on 10.6. There 
needs to be very good reasons why the standard binaries produce applications 
for 10.7+.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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