[Development] Remove OSX 10.6 Build?
deDietrich Gabriel
Gabriel.deDietrich at digia.com
Thu Jan 23 13:09:35 CET 2014
On Jan 23, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo at digia.com> wrote:
> 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
I second that.
Best regards,
Dr. Gabriel de Dietrich
Senior Software Developer
qt.digia.com
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