[Development] Dropping of MSVC 2013

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Wed Oct 18 07:13:19 CEST 2017


On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 21:54:40 PDT Ville Voutilainen wrote:
> On 18 October 2017 at 07:51, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> 
wrote:
> > This came up again in QtCS and we decided that dropping it soon is
> > probably a good idea, especially after Qt 5.9 became LTS.
> > 
> > Did we decide on 5.10 or 5.11?
> > 
> > Because one of my changes for 5.10 is currently failing on MSVC 2013 as
> > designed. I need to refactor it for it to compile there.
> > 
> > Do I need to implement it? Or shall we drop that compiler?
> 
> Weren't we planning to look at the download stats first?

We were. I'm asking for a quicker decision now, to decide whether I need to 
invest time making QRandomGenerator deterministic mode work on MSVC 2013.

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