[Development] Stop delivering 32 bit MinGW binaries from 5.12 ->

[Roland Winklmeier]

2017-12-21 11:37 GMT+01:00 Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io>:

> With Qt 5.11 it seems we can finally drop MSVC2013 so we could
> "temporarily" add MinGW 64 bit pre-build binaries in our packages in
> addition to 32 bit ones and remove 32 bit MinGW pre-built binaries from
> 5.12 onwards. Making this decision now would complete this discussion
> finally and still give users time to move from 32 bit to 64 bit ones...
>

Hi Jani,

adding MinGW 64 bit sounds great. I would prefer to keep the MinGW 32 bit
ones too, because there are several projects which are plugins to host
applications in 32 bit. So sometimes its not in the scope of the developer
to change his project to 64 bit. Please keep that in mind.
I personally use MSVC2017 together with MSVC2015 32 bit binaries for the
published product. But I regularly use MinGW for daily development. Other
people might prefer MinGW over MSVC for published products though.
So 32 bit software projects are still very common on Windows platforms.

Cheers R.
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