[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: torstaina 25. helmikuuta 2016 0.18
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8
> 
> On quarta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2016 21:53:06 PST Blasche Alexander
> wrote:
> >
> > The commitment towards WEC2013 in Qt 5.6 is what really matters due to
> > its LTS character. By the time 5.6 support runs out Qt 5.8 support has
> > been ancient history.
> >
> > In summary Qt does not gain anything from pushing WEC2013 to 5.8:
> >
> > - Potential Qt Customers are not stranded due to 5.6
> > - WEC2013 in 5.8 doesn't really enable more projects
> > - MS says it is dead and licenses are hard to come by
> > - the currently visible project pipeline is rather dry on this
> > platform
> >
> > *But* our C++11 offering is yet longer chained.
> 
> So why are we bothering with VS2012 for Qt 5.7 then? Why wait until 5.8?
> 
> Let's drop it now.
> 

That is fine for me as well. As Alex wrote, most important is that Qt 5.6 LTS supports both WEC7 and WEC13 and that latest for Qt 5.8 we no longer have these to slow down adoption of C++11 and other planned changes.

Yours,

	Tuukka