[Qt-creator] Planning Qt Creator 2.8 + 0.1

[Ziller Eike]

On 14.06.2013, at 08:57, Ziller Eike <Eike.Ziller at digia.com> wrote:

> 
> On 13.06.2013, at 17:35, Teske Daniel <Daniel.Teske at digia.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Some important detail is, that Andre and me just realized:
>> clang only supports c++11 with libc++.
>> libc++ is only supported from 10.7.
>> 10.6 is still widely used and we can't realistically drop support for that this year.
>> 
>> Unless I'm mistaken, that stops us from using c++11 any time soon…
> 
> To clarify this a bit:
> Using c++11 / libc++ in Qt Creator would mean that we need to drop support for *compiling* Qt Creator on Mac OS X 10.6 (afair clang isn't easily available on 10.6 anyhow)
> But as far as I know, it is possible to package libc++ (and libc++abi which is needed by that) together with Qt into Qt Creator builds, and deploy on 10.6.
> I can double-check if this is indeed true.

Actually I was wrong. Compilation fails when trying to use (Apple's) libc++ with deployment target 10.6.
:'(

> So, how important would *compiling* Qt Creator on 10.6 be, if it was still possible to deploy and run Qt Creator on 10.6 ?
> 
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