[Qt-creator] Proposal increasing requirement for building Qt Creator 4.7

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 15/03/18 15:08, Eike Ziller wrote:
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/223368
> Target branch “master” (will be 4.7)
> 
> "Increase requirement for building Qt Creator from Qt 5.6.2 to Qt 5.9
> 
> Qt 5.11 will be released and Qt 5.9 is the new LTS.
> Increasing the requirement allows us to remove some baggage and
> workarounds like Utils::asConst, special Q_OVERRIDE header, and
> deployment target adaptions on macOS, and simplifies pulling in
> proparser changes from Qt.”
> 
> This doesn’t affect the Qt that you use to develop your applications with.
> 
> Br, Eike
> 

If this bump isn't yet strictly necessary, I'd love to stick with 5.7.
I'm on Slackware and 5.9 does not seem to be arriving soon.

But well, if need be, then I can't stop you ;-)

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski