[Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.9) (was: 6.9)

[Alex Blasche]

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Alex



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From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2024 17:26
To: development at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.9) (was: 6.9)

On Saturday 3 February 2024 09:08:25 GMT-7 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> The compiler is pretty buggy and has several, unfixed conformance issues
> with C++.
>
> One year ago I asked on the interest mailing list about using a non-latest
> MSVC:
> https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2023-January/038859.html
>
>Sigh. This is getting old.


I forgot about it too (thank you Olli for highlighting this) but we actually have a decision point already:

https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2024-April/045178.html

I believe we just have to remove MSVC 2019 from our CI.

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Alex