[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:47:15PM -0600, roland at logikalsolutions.com wrote:
> 
> Quoting André Pönitz <apoenitz at t-online.de>:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 07:39:51AM -0600, roland at logikalsolutions.com wrote:
> > > > Please note also that "not out-of-the-box" does not necessarily mean it
> > > > cannot be done.  Asking Google for "ubuntu 14.04 gcc" gives as third hit
> > > > https://gist.github.com/application2000/73fd6f4bf1be6600a2cf9f56315a2d91,
> > > > apparently giving instructions to get a gcc 6.1 on Ubuntu 14.04.
> > > 
> > > Spoken like someone whose never worked in a production environment
> > > restricted to official repos. The bulk of the serious development
> > > using Qt are such environments, not idiot phone apps.
> > 
> > You are apparently not restricted to "official repos" as you are
> > trying to build Qt Creator from source.
> > 
> > Exactly the same process ("compile something from source") would
> > give you a contemporary compiler that would be able to build Creator
> > from source.
> > 
> > So basically your "problem" is completely made up by your self-imposed
> > restrictions that "allows" you to build this but not that.
> 
> No. It's really simple. Things which (potentially) impact the product, like
> installing a compiler from a PPA, aren't allowed.
>
> This is the norm on most projects for me. As a general rule, nobody cares about the
> editor you wish to use. It ordinarily has no potential to impact the product.

Fine.

Nobody forces you to use a self-built compiler for your product, this was
about having a compiler to build Qt Creator.

Yes, that would increase your personal effort to get this Creator from 2018
on Ubuntu 14.04 working, but that effort is dwarfed by the effort you spent
on your messages here, so that hardly can be the limiting factor in the game.

Andre'