[Development] Dropping of MSVC 2013

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 20 December 2017 at 16:17, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> here are the promised numbers:
> *Version*
> *Compiler*
> *Commercial*
>
> *Version*
> *Compiler*
> *Opensource*
> 5.10.0
> MinGW530
> 22 %
>
> 5.10.0
> MinGW530
> 25 %
> 5.10.0
> MSVC2013_64
> 14 %
>
> 5.10.0
> MSVC2013_64
> 15 %
> 5.10.0
> MSVC2015
> 20 %
>
> 5.10.0
> MSVC2015
> 18 %
> 5.10.0
> MSVC2015_64
> 20 %
>
> 5.10.0
> MSVC2015_64
> 18 %
> 5.10.0
> MSVC2017_64
> 24 %
>
> 5.10.0
> MSVC2017_64
> 24 %
>
>
> So MSVC 2013 is now the least used compiler by both our customers and the
> community, and seems to be dropping fast. Given that 5.11 is still some
> months out, download percentages for this compiler would probably be in the
> single digit range by then.
>
> So my proposal is to drop MSVC 2013 support from 5.11 and onwards.
>
>
Sounds good, +1, good riddance. :)
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