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

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Montag, 28. Januar 2019 14:53:21 CET Kai Koehne wrote:
> > -----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.
> 
No, the version of Windows doesn't matter. It is only the version of the 
Visual Studio 2017 that needs updating. Though they could update both at once. 
But Qt WebEngine will be fine with just the newest patch release of the 
compiler :)

'Allan