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

[Dan White]

So then the request is to change which compiler is used in Mac OS X to build QT Creator -- going from an older supported (?still?) compiler to a newer supported compiler, right ?

If so, then no objection.
If not, then please clarify.

And a happy new year / Hogswatch Night / what-ever to you and yours

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Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

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From: "Ziller Eike" <Eike.Ziller at digia.com>
To: "Erik Verbruggen" <erik.verbruggen at me.com>, "<qt-creator at qt-project.org> list" <qt-creator at qt-project.org>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 1:59:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Request: dropping support for macx-g++ to *compile* Qt	Creator

Hi,

I don't have a big problem with dropping compilation support of Qt Creator with that mkspec/compiler. The "funky incomprehensible error messages" can be circumvented by making the Qt Creator .pro file bail out with a useful error + hint for that mkspec, similar to how we do it for the Qt version.

Br, Eike

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From: qt-creator-bounces+eike.ziller=digia.com at qt-project.org [qt-creator-bounces+eike.ziller=digia.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of Erik Verbruggen [erik.verbruggen at me.com]
Sent: 22 December 2012 14:48
To: <qt-creator at qt-project.org> list
Subject: [Qt-creator] Request: dropping support for macx-g++ to *compile* Qt    Creator

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.