[Qt-creator] Dev: Increasing requirements for building Qt Creator 4.2(master)

[Eike Ziller]

> On Jun 30, 2016, at 17:27, Jake Petroules <Jake.Petroules at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> I'd also like to propose requiring the latest LLVM 3.8, and to start keeping it up to date much more frequently (see QTCREATORBUG-16512).

You are mixing up things here. That bug report refers to the Clang version that the C++ code model uses to parse user code.
This is completely independent from what Clang version can be used to compile Qt Creator.

Our Qt Creator 4.1 binaries ship libclang 3.8 for the Clang code model.

Br, Eike

> 
>> On Jun 30, 2016, at 3:22 AM, Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:
>> 
>> I’d like to propose requiring the following for building Qt Creator 4.2 (currently “master” branch):
>> 
>> MSVC2015
>> GCC 4.8
>> Qt 5.6.0
>> 
>> These compilers have many fixes for C++11 code (e.g. move semantics is basically unusable in MSVC2013).
>> As far as I can see we do not loose support for any relevant platform version.
>> 
>> Regarding Qt, Qt 5.7 is out, and when Qt Creator 4.2 releases there will probably Qt 5.8, so it should be fine to up the requirements to Qt 5.6.
>> 
>> Comments welcome, you can also cast your vote on https://codereview.qt-project.org/163933
>> 
>> Br, Eike
>> 
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>> Eike Ziller
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>> 
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Eike Ziller
Principal Software Engineer

The Qt Company GmbH
Rudower Chaussee 13
D-12489 Berlin
eike.ziller at qt.io
+123 45 6789012
http://qt.io
Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Tuula Haataja
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B