[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14

[Scott Bloom]

I couldn’t agree more with Roland's concerns here.

I am stuck on Qt 5.5 because of the QWebKit debacle....

I am finally moving on to VS 2017 + a newer GCC, that I can consistently build QWebKit with only minor mods to the build-webkit script.  But we build all our code with Wall and warnings as errors.

It’s a 4-6 week project to move code to a different compiler... Some of the warnings are valid, and surprising.. Some are overly pedantic, and a pain.. But we have to verify code changes don’t introduce new issues...

While I understand the "want" to move to a new compiler.. and I do love many of the modern c++ advantages.  For a core library such as Qt to FORCE a new compiler, leaves many stuck on older versions

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Interest <interest-bounces at lists.qt-project.org> On Behalf Of roland at logikalsolutions.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 14:59
To: Filip Piechocki <fpiechocki at gmail.com>
Cc: interest at lists.qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 14


Quoting Filip Piechocki <fpiechocki at gmail.com>:

> I don't understand it. This new compiler is needed to build QtC on 
> Ubuntu 14.04. You said, that you can have whatever editor you want, 
> but cannot use anything that changes the product. But wait, this new 
> GCC will be used to build the QtC, not the product. Or maybe Ubuntu 
> 14.04 system image is your product? Or am I missing something here...
>
> Filip
Quoting Filip Piechocki <fpiechocki at gmail.com>:
>>>
>> 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'

Andre',

This is not about effort or great need. I'm shocked so many people cannot fathom working in an environment where you are not allowed to change out the C/C++ compiler willy-nilly. Gospel truth, I completed what I needed to do on 14.04 for the next weeks. I used Sublime Text 3 like I said I would. Other than when I'm at home working on my own stuff, over the course of my 30+ years in IT, I do not recall being in a work environment where I was allowed to change the C/C++ compiler out at will. Even if it is/was/might be allowed here, changing the compiler out just to get an editor would be an extreme risk. It could potentially undo tons of work which has already went into creating/testing the Debian and ISO construction worlds as well as the multi-platform deployment testing.

Filip,

Unknown. If that PPA was/is a backport which installs a new compiler over the top of the existing system compiler, then yeah, the wheels are off the cart. If that PPA installs off in some obscure corner where QtCreator wouldn't automagically find it while configuring kits and projects, __maybe__ it's okay. Assuming nothing got put into a standard search path where it accidentally got picked up.

Be off-line for a bit. Other team has release going live tomorrow morning then my stuff starts churning through the system.
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