[Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8

[Turunen Tuukka]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development [mailto:development-
> bounces+tuukka.turunen=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Thiago Macieira
> Sent: maanantaina 22. helmikuuta 2016 19.32
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8
> 
> On segunda-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2016 18:16:47 PST Turunen Tuukka
> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So, to echo what Gunnar is saying:
> 
> Is Qt 5.7 going to be the *only* release to support WEC2013?
> 

No. Both Qt 5.6 and Qt 5.7 will support WEC13.

> I want that answer to be "no". Let's support it for at least a year.
> --

Me too. I want to support it 3 years with the Qt 5.6 LTS - and after that offer extended support to customers needing it.

But let's re-check if VS2013 is actually now supported as a compiler or not. Maybe we can remove VS2012 but still support WEC13 with Qt 5.8 - however this may require some more though that just the compiler support. It seems very clear that Microsoft is aggressively pushing towards Windows 10 IoT, so I think that would be the right thing to focus on in the future of embedded Windows. 

Yours,

	Tuukka

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