[Development] Proposal for Qt 5.10 platforms and configurations changes

[Benjamin TERRIER]

2017-04-28 14:23 GMT+02:00 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> On Friday, 28 April 2017 03:56:22 -03 Jani Heikkinen wrote:
>> Yes, MSVC 2017 is already supported in Qt 5.9 and we are trying to get
>> pre-built binaries available before final release;  let's see if we can
>> make it happen
>
> I remember a discussion about whether we needed MSVC 2017 binaries in the first
> place, since they're binary compatible with MSVC 2015 and we don't have
> "win32-msvc2015" anymore, which concluded we did. I don't remember the reason.
>
> Does anyone?

I recall this (it's from you):

> We can't drop it from the CI. I don't think we can drop it from the build
> packages either, since usually you compile with the oldest you plan to use. So
> if you're correct and VS2017 is binary-compatible, then we are already
> providing the packages for VS2017.

http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2017-February/028768.html

BR,

Benjamin