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

[André Hartmann]

Hi Andrzej,

Am 15.03.2018 um 23:06 schrieb 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 ;-)

5.7 is no option, as it is no LTS and should have reached end-of-life 
already.

But it's very easy to install a recent Qt version with the online 
installer and use that for building Creator. I do it this way on Ubuntu 
16.04. Of course you can also build Qt from sources.

Regards, André