[Development] supported compilers in 5.10?

[Marc Mutz]

On Friday 31 March 2017 16:24:37 Alex Blasche wrote:
> > -----Original Message----
> > 
> > >> 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...
> 
> I just looked through the download statistics. MSVC2015 takes about 30% of
> all windows downloads and the Visual Studio Tools have a similar ratio. It
> might change once we have a MSVC2017 packages but right now I must say no,
> dropping MSVC2015 is a no go for Qt 5.10.
> 
> I can image we have a realistic chance for 5.11 though.

Are you talking about MSVC 2015 or 2013?

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