[Interest] [OSX/iOS] Garbage collection still in place in Qt?

Sorvig Morten Morten.Sorvig at theqtcompany.com
Thu Mar 5 09:24:06 CET 2015


> On 04 Mar 2015, at 16:49, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 04 March 2015 13:36:14 Sorvig Morten wrote:
>> ARC: Qt does not use ARC because it's not supported for 32-bit builds. It’s
>> not supported on 10.6 either, which is why the topic was brought up when we
>> dropped support for 10.6.
> 
> If we don't use ARC, why did we drop 10.6?

If I recall correctly the issues that were weighted most heavily in that descicion was maintenance burden and CI system capacity.

Morten



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