[Development] Remove OSX 10.6 Build?

[Olivier Goffart]

On Monday 20 January 2014 19:55:05 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Monday 20 January 2014, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On segunda-feira, 20 de janeiro de 2014 17:36:26, Kurt Pattyn wrote:
> > > The CI system is still building for OSX 10.6.
> > > Given the fact that OSX is at version 10.9 now, shouldn’t the build for
> > > 10.6 be removed, and ideally replaced with a build for OSX 10.9?
> > 
> > Only if we decide to stop supporting 10.6 entirely. So the question is: do
> > we drop it?
> > 
> > Mac devs, what say you?
> 
> Could we drop support for build on 10.6, but still support it as runtime
> platform? That seems to be how Apple prefers to support older versions. The
> question is of course if out CI system would be able to handle building on
> 10.7 but running  on 10.6


It is true that building on OSX 10.6 still require GCC 4.2 which is a bit old.
If it is possible to build with clang and target OSX 10.6 that would be great.

We could revisit the supported compiler.
Personally, this would be my list:
 GCC 4.5 / clang 3.1 / MSVC 2010

That way we could start using C++11 feature in Qt: such as 'auto', lambda 
expressions, 'decltype', variadic macro, and more.

If not for Qt 5.3,  at least Qt 5.4.


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Olivier 

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