[Development] SSL Plans for Qt 5.6

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 24 February 2015 at 03:49, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>
>> * RHEL 7 ships 1.0.1, EOL Jun 2014
>> * CentOS 7 ships 1.0.1, EOL Jun 2014
>
> I think you mean 2024 there (2014 + 10 years).

Whooops, yes, of course. My bad...

>> Of course there are other considerations, like RHEL/CentOS 6 both
>> shipping GCC 4.4, so we might end up dropping support for those
>> distributions for other reasons...
>
> Newer GCC versions are readily available through the Red Hat Developer
> Toolset though. There is also a build for CentOS (from Red Hat's SRPMs, as
> for CentOS itself).

But if one has to require users to install an extra toolchain, would
it be too much to also ask to install updated libraries? (Because even
with the extra toolchain I don't see us supporting OpenSSL 1.0.1 since
2024)


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Giuseppe D'Angelo