[Development] Your actions needed, Qt5.5.0 RC & Final is nearing!

[Sorvig Morten]

> On 05 Jun 2015, at 19:00, Sean Harmer <sean.harmer at kdab.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05/06/2015 14:52, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>> On Friday June 05 2015 13:30:58 Sean Harmer wrote:
>> 
>>>> could QTBUG-46143 possibly be added to the list of blockers? it is a P1
>>>> bug in qt3d/qt5.5, as it does not build against the macos10.8 sdk.
>>> A day later than promised...
>>> 
>>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/113797/2
>> I presume that the patch also takes care of building against earlier SDKs, at least as far as this particular issue goes?
>> 
>> What is the earliest OS X version on which 5.5 is supposed to work, officially?
> 
> For Qt3D, 10.8 is the oldest version handled by the CI. Given recent OS 
> X updates are free do you really need support for anything older?

I’m aiming for supporting 10.7 as “deprecated” in the 5.5 release. It currently does not compile - the lack of CI testing is showing. I’m focusing on QtBase.

I think it’s OK if other modules, and especially new modules, have stricter requirements. Qt users can make a decision if the provided OS version support is acceptable before starting to use the module.

In general my opinion is that Qt as middleware should try very hard to not get in the way when it comes to OS and compiler requirements.

Morten