[Development] Plans of platforms in the CI and released binaries

[Lars Knoll]

> On 30 Dec 2019, at 21:59, Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 11:21, Tony Sarajärvi <tony.sarajarvi at qt.io> wrote:
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>> Hi all!
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>> We’ve had a few meetings here trying to figure out what we will have in the CI and ultimately what binaries we will serve in our releases.
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>> Qt could support something that isn’t tested in the CI. We simply have to limit the amount of combinations we test due to technical limits of the CI infra. We try to cover to most common use cases however.
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>> Also, for us to be able to produce binaries we release, it has to be in the CI, and also tested. So those facts are separated as own columns in this sheet I attached.
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>> There’s the current 5.13 and 5.14 configurations visible and planned 5.15 and very much so planned Qt6.
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>> Please go through it and respond with comments.
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> The 5.14 supported platforms list claims support for GCC 4.8, but 5.14
> doesn't build with it. Can't we just drop it
> from 5.14 and fix the documentation to not advertise it any more?

This does have my support. That gcc 4.8 is still in there is probably just because we forgot to cleanup the list.

Lars

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