[Development] supported compilers in 5.10?

[Ville Voutilainen]

On 30 March 2017 at 12:21, Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can we drop GCC 4.7 from the list of supported compilers for 5.10? It has a
> bug that makes writing constexpr classes like QSizePolicy, QUuid, ... very
> annoying:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54922

Yes please. Is there some long-term support distro that still ships
with 4.7 that we care about?

> If we can drop MSVC 2013, too, we can start to use char16_t unconditionlly,
> which will make QStringViewLiteral obsolete, as we can just write u"foo"
> everywhere. It will also simplify a lot of other code that currently needs to
> fall back to wchar_t on Windows / MSVC 2013.

It would certainly be nice not to have to worry about working around
the various problems with MSVC 2013.