[Development] Qt 5.9

[Jake Petroules]

> On Nov 23, 2016, at 1:49 AM, Tim Blechmann <tim at klingt.org> wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> 
>>>> The currently sold CPU's are not really the measurement stick here. The
>>>> measurement stick is actually installed Win 32 systems.
>>> Yes, but what's the 32-bit Windows install base which is capable of running
>>> Qt? We only support Windows 7 and above now, so I can't imagine it's very
>>> many. Perhaps we should try to find some metrics to base our decision on.
>> 
>> That's an important point: since Qt 5.7, we no longer support anything older 
>> than Windows 7. That was the first Windows with decent 64-bit support and 
>> computers with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and now 10 tended to come with the 64-bit 
>> version pre-installed. So the chances of users running 64-bit Windows are much 
>> higher now.
> 
> when using qt inside a plugin it is not necessarily a question how many
> users are on 64-bit windows, but how many are on 64-bit hosts, as 32-bit
> host can run on 64-bit windows.

True, and this is a good point. Many Windows applications are still 32-bit.

> 
> i don't care about the binary packages, though. as long as i can still
> build from sources, i'm fine ... but please don't completely drop
> support for 32-bit windows.

Of course this is out of the question (and would be of little to no benefit to Qt). We're talking ONLY about binary packages here, not to worry. :)

> 
> cheers,
> tim
> 
> 
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