[Qt-creator] Qt Creator 3.2 dropping support for Mac OS X 10.6

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Creator doesn't build software. It's not a compiler. So you are not 
depending on it to build anything, actually.

It would seem to be that someone in your company is confused about 
compilers :-)


On 23/01/14 20:16, Adam Light wrote:
> All but one developer at my (smallish) company is still using OSX 10.6.8
> because we need 10.6 to be able to build the current shipping version of
> our main product. We all use Qt Creator, so a Creator 3.2 that would not
> work on 10.6 would be a problem for us.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Daniel Teske <daniel.teske at digia.com
> <mailto:daniel.teske at digia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Let's make this:
>      > Qt Creator 3.2:
>      >  - drop support for compiling & running Qt Creator on 10.6
>
>      > We want to start using C++11 also in Qt Creator, and 10.6 is the
>     only thing
>      > preventing that. Since 10.6 is deployment target only for Qt, we
>     don’t
>      > necessarily need to keep “its IDE” running there (yes, that’s a
>     Qt-centric
>      > way of looking at Qt Creator).
>
>     a actual independant proposal (since it doesn't really depend on what qt
>     supports) and cross post it to qt-creator for some wider exposure.
>
>     Actually using C++11 would also mean bumping the minimum supported
>     compiler
>     for *compiling* Qt Creator. That's somewhat separate, but I would
>     assume we
>     would require at least lamba and auto support for compiling Qt
>     Creator 3.2.
>
>     That means MSVC 2010, clang 3.1 or g++ 4.5 if I remember correctly.
>
>     daniel
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