[Development] Remove OSX 10.6 Build?

[Tor Arne Vestbø]

On 22/01/14 9:02 , Ziller Eike wrote:
>
> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø
> <tor.arne.vestbo at digia.com> wrote:
>> 5.3:
>>
>> - Remove support from binary packages - No CI = In practice,
>> deprecated, so let's be explicit about it for 5.3
>>
>> 5.4
>>
>> - Bump the dev branch to 5.4 - Remove 10.6 code as see fit - Apply
>> 10.6 fixes to 5.3.x (stable) as normal
>>
>> The message is "Qt 5.3 deprecates 10.6 support (but is available
>> for source builds for the lifetime of 5.3), and 5.4 will remove
>> it.”
>
> I’d support this plan, and additionally throw in:
>
> after 5.3 / Qt Creator 3.2: - drop support for compiling & running Qt
> Creator on 10.6
>
> We want to start using C++11 also in Qt Creator, and 10.6 is the only
> thing preventing that. Since 10.6 is deployment target only for Qt,
> we don’t necessarily need to keep “its IDE” running there (yes,
> that’s a Qt-centric way of looking at Qt Creator).

I think it makes perfect sense.

tor arne