[Development] HEADS UP: OSX build requirements for 5.7

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2016 17:11:38 PST Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
> On 10/02/16 17:06, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2016 12:00:00 PST Tor Arne Vestbø 
wrote:
> >> Does anyone see any issues with this going forward?
> > 
> > We need to be sure Qt compiles with the latest Xcode available on each of
> > the OS X versions that Qt can be developed on. Since 10.8→10.11 updating
> > is free, the only extra test is 10.7.  The latest Xcode that can be
> > installed on 10.7 is Xcode 5.1, so it's important we keep building with
> > that.
> > 
> > Note that we don't have to build *on* 10.7 to be sure that Xcode 5.1
> > works.
> 
> Then we should drop 10.7 as a supported development platform (not
> deployment platform), so that we can require the latest Xcode and latest
> SDK (available for 10.10 and 10.11).

I'm ok with that, but it would have been nice to know before we worked around 
a series of issues with the compiler that comes with that Xcode...

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center