[Development] Supported platforms for Qt 5.8

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Thu Mar 3 07:23:45 CET 2016


With all the talk about support on 5.7 and 5.8, is 5.6 going to support 
debugging under IOS 9.2 Simulator?

5.6 releases tomorrow, Qt Creator Bug 15705 not fixed.

Has anybody debugged Qt 5.6 under IOS 9.x Simulator recently?

md



On 3/3/2016 12:17 AM, Turunen Tuukka wrote:
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>> André Somers <andre at familiesomers.nl> kirjoitti 2.3.2016 kello 22.28:
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>> Op 20/02/2016 om 08:38 schreef Petroules Jake:
>>> "Continue" with iOS 7? It's currently iOS 6 in both 5.7 and dev branches. However, I wholeheartedly approve bumping it to 7.
>>>
>>> This puts us at a minimum of "last four releases" (by the time 5.8 is released) for both OS X and iOS. However I'd argue that iOS's schedule should be treated a little more aggressively given its extremely fast upgrade cycle compared to all other platforms.
>>>
>>> As of February 8th, 2016, the iOS version distribution (as measured by Apple - https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/) is as follows:
>>> - iOS 9 - 77%
>>> - iOS 8 - 17%
>>> - iOS 7 and earlier - 6%
>>>
>>> By the time Qt 5.8 is released, iOS 10 will have just been released and iOS 8's market share will almost certainly less than 5%, as iOS 7's is now. In that case is there really much point supporting iOS 7 (or even 8)?
>>>
>>> iOS 8 was one of the biggest releases API-wise and so we would be able to reduce effort significantly by dropping v7. The current version of Xcode also provides no simulators for iOS prior to 8.1.
>> Hmm... That would be annoying. iOS 7 is the last version supported on the iPhone 4 (which I am still using). To me, it doesn't even feel that old.
>> Here is the list of devices that will be left behind for each version you bumb: http://www.everyi.com/by-capability/maximum-supported-ios-version-for-ipod-iphone-ipad.html
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> But how many really still use iPhone 4 still in 2017? Qt 5.8 is planned for October 2016.
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> Anyway, I leave it for the platform maintainers to decide, if there are no issues in keeping also these older devices supported, we of course can consider it.
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> Yours,
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> Tuukka
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>> André
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