[Development] Qt LTS & C++11 plans

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 23 June 2015 10:17:40 Knoll Lars wrote:
> Qt 5.6:
> 
> * We make 5.6 a long term supported release
> * We still support C++98 compilers in this release (for the last time),
> i.e. We keep the 5.5 compiler baseline
> * WEC7 will be still supported
> * QNX 6.5 is not supported anymore
> * Qt Quick1 and Qt WebKit are not part of the release (but we test that
> the sources compile against 5.6)
> * We keep Qt Script for this release, it’ll be gone in 5.7 as well
> 
> Qt 5.7:
> 
> * New compiler baseline with gcc 4.7 and VC++ 2012
> * Enable and use the C++11 features supported by these compilers
> unconditionally
> * WEC7 not supported anymore, WEC2013 supported
> * Probably remove support for older Android, Mac and Linux versions as
> well (to be discussed)

https://codereview.qt-project.org/115267

I've updated the 5.5.0 changelog to reflect this discussion.

By effect of requiring Clang 3.2 for the C++11 features, we also require XCode 
5.0, which in turn removes OS X 10.7 support from 5.7.
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