[Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8

[Turunen Tuukka]

Hi,

For both WEC7 and WEC13 Qt 5.6 should be a very good release to use, while for WEC13 also Qt 5.7 is an option. However as Qt 5.6 is a LTS release supporting both WEC7 and WEC13, it is a very good baseline. With Qt 5.6.0 the WEC13 is still experimental, but target is to have it supported equally well as WEC7 is within Qt 5.6.x patch level releases.

Yours,

                             Tuukka

From: Development [mailto:development-bounces+tuukka.turunen=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Gunnar Roth
Sent: maanantaina 22. helmikuuta 2016 18.51
To: Andrew Knight <andrew.knight at intopalo.com>
Cc: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8

This is a deja vu to me, somehow.
please have a look at this discussion https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=development@qt-project.org&q=subject:%22Re%5C%3A+%5C%5BDevelopment%5C%5D+QtCS%5C%3A+Long+Term+Release+discussion%22&o=newest&f=1

To quote myself:
"

 Hi Björn, i had the assumption you could mean that, but thats not a

 knowledge base article. I think you mean Compact 2013 uses the Microsoft

 Visual Studio 2013 compiler,? That part was also sent to me by a colleage

 from another department when discussing v8 usage( as this has vs2013

 depedancy according to wiki).  So we startet a MS Request to clear this

 issue. The answer was that the arcticle is wrong here."

MS promised to fix that article but maybe they need some more years for that.

By the way I am strongly against droping wec2013 support after just one other version, actually support for wec2013
has not yet arrived yet. So this is probaly unique for a platform supported by qt , where the deprecation announcement comes before the release of the actual platform support.

There is also a some importat stuff missing for wec2013 in qt 5.6 beta like no quick2 controls support, no webkit/engine support  and no multimedia support, no neon intrinsics support, no openssl support, no sse2 support.

Regards,
Gunnar Roth

Gesendet: Montag, 22. Februar 2016 um 17:01 Uhr
Von: "Andrew Knight" <andrew.knight at intopalo.com<mailto:andrew.knight at intopalo.com>>
An: development at qt-project.org<mailto:development at qt-project.org>
Betreff: Re: [Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8
On 02/22/2016 05:54 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2016 14:59:52 PST Roger Briggen wrote:
>> WEC2013 is also supported by Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015
>> (according to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg154234.aspx)
>> because it uses now the ARM Desktop Compiler.
>> So dropping VS2012 must not be the end of WEC2013 support of Qt.
> Hi Roger
>
> That is IDE support using the compiler from VS2012. When we say we drop
> support for a compiler, we don't mean the IDE that you're using.
>

That link clearly states that the MSVC2013 compiler is now used with
WEC2013 Update 5 and 11, as is the latest C runtime. So, this indeed
looks like a compiler and C runtime upgrade, not simply the new IDE
targeting the old compiler.

Maybe someone with a WEC2013 installation can check this out in practice?

Andrew
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