[Development] supported compilers in 5.10?

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 30/03/2017 11:43, Ville Voutilainen ha scritto:
> 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?

No, AFAICS:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms-and-configurations.html

> 
>> 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.

I would favour to support only the latest two compilers (so 2017 and
2015), but I've got the feeling it might be too early. People using MSVC
move *slowly* to the next compiler...

My 2 c,
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