[Development] Good idea to update Windows 10 to 1809 - Redstone 5?

Kai Koehne Kai.Koehne at qt.io
Mon Jan 28 14:53:21 CET 2019


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Tony Sarajärvi
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:23 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] Good idea to update Windows 10 to 1809 - Redstone
> 5?
> 
> Hi
> 
> We have this thing that we like to try to update things to the latest. But
> regarding Windows 10 I was told we shouldn't perhaps do that, because Qt's
> code will select and different path depending on the API levels available from
> Windows.

Qt WebEngine in Qt 5.13 will require a newer version of Windows 10, so it's high time to update Windows 10 in our CI.

If we really start depending on stuff from a newer Windows 10 SDK, I guess we'd notice when testing on Windows 7, which we AFAIK test for before a release.
 
My 2 cents,

Kai




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