[Development] Deprecating modules with 5.5

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 05 February 2015 09:55:33 Andreas Holzammer wrote:
> Am 04.02.2015 um 16:51 schrieb Cristian Adam:
> > On 04.02.2015 10:23, Knoll Lars wrote:
> >> In principle I agree. The problem with 2008 is that this is
> >> currently the only compiler supporting Windows Embedded 7, so we
> >> can’t easily get rid of it. Dropping gcc 4.4 is afaik not a big
> >> problem.
> > 
> > QNX 6.5.0 has GCC 4.4.2. I don't know how important QNX 6.5.0 is
> > for Qt Project.
> 
> I think we cannot really drop QNX 6.5.0 support. Many companies are
> still using it even for new products. Embedded companies are not that
> fast yet and most secure products cannot use newer technologies, same
> applies for medical products. So if we want to support a big portion
> of the embedded market we cannot drop either MSVC 2008 and gcc 4.4
> support.

No chance of people installing a new compiler against the same old sysroot?

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