[Development] xcode in ci & packaging for Qt5.4.0

[Jake Petroules]

On 2014-09-05, at 06:24 AM, Heikkinen Jani <Jani.Heikkinen at digia.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> QtWebEngine & QtCreator teams has proposed us to update used xcode in packaging & CI machines. At the moment 10.8 mac is using xcode 5.0.2 & 10.9 xcode 5.1.1 . Does someone know any issue why we shouldn't make that update? 
> According to our CI guys there were some issues with xcode 5.1 & qt earlier but nowdays at least compiling qt with mac 10.9 & xcode 5.1 seems to work OK (in CI). autotest are at least partially insignificants at the moment in that confiquration...
> 
> And could following be the rule of the thumb in the future:
> 
> we always support only "latest available Xcode for OS X version" with Qt on OS X ?
> 
> br,
> Jani
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+1 from me. Apple drops support for older versions of their OSes and tools like hot potatoes and upgrade cycles and short and fast. In fact you're *required* to build with the latest Xcode at least for iOS App Store submissions (https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=04252014a) and I wouldn't be surprised if the same becomes true of OS X with its new pricing and annual release model. We should always have the latest versions of the OSes and Xcode in CI quickly after their release (which means Yosemite and Xcode 6 next month, likely).
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