[Qt-creator] Request: dropping support for macx-g++ to *compile* Qt Creator

[Erik Verbruggen]

Hi all,

Hereby I would like to ask to officially drop support to *compile* Qt Creator with macx-g++.

Please read that again: it is NOT  (¡not! /not/ <blink>not</blink>) *using* Qt Creator with macx-g++ (!¡!¡!¡!).

The reason is that the amount of bugs in this >4-years-old compiler is starting to seriously freak me out. And yes, I do say this as a full-time mac user, who compiles Qt Creator on a more-than-daily basis. It's up to the point that, when I hit a compiler error in a file, I manually copy-and-paste the command and replace "g++" with "clang++". Especially when using templates, it is just getting to be a serious pain in the hinter-parts. A helpful note here might be that the only reason for Apple to include this compiler comes down to "you're using GCC specific features which we don't know about, or you didn't update you're very compiler-sensitive codebase to anything that's not from the stone-age or before".

This does have the possibly unfortunate implication that, when using Qt 4.8 with the default Mac spec, compiling Qt Creator might fail with funky (== utterly stupid and erroneous) error messages.

Cheers, and happy Christmas (hacking?),
Erik.