[Development] Dropping of MSVC 2013

[Philippe]

> 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.

Did you consider having a policy such as "Feature X is only available
for compilers that suports Y" ? (to use sparingly, of course)

Philippe

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:13:19 -0700
Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> 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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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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