[Qt-creator] Updating requirements for building Qt Creator 7+ (master branch)

[Eike Ziller]

> On 28 Jan 2022, at 19:42, Иван Комиссаров <abbapoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Are there any plans on updating the minimum required version of Visual studio and a target platform on Mac?

Regarding target platforms we should try to not be more restrictive than the supported target platforms of the Qt versions that we still support building Qt Creator with. So, macOS 10.14 will become minimum when we finally drop support for building with Qt 5. That will still take a while though - we still find quite some Qt-version related regressions.

So far no plans for raising the requirement on MSVC, though we could probably go up to 2019 if there are compelling reasons.

Br, Eike

> Ivan
> 
>> 28 янв. 2022 г., в 11:04, Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> написал(а):
>> 
>> Another one:
>> 
>> # Bumping the required CMake version for building Qt Creator to CMake 3.16 and later
>> 
>> Seems to be available on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 11 and others (https://pkgs.org/search/?q=cmake), and lets us get rid of some workarounds.
>> 
>> Require CMake 3.16 and remove workarounds (I32500375) · Gerrit Code Review
>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt-creator/qt-creator/+/392678
>> 
>>> On 14 Jan 2022, at 13:44, Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:
>>> 
>>> # Bumping the required Qt version for building Qt Creator from Qt 5.14 to Qt 5.15.2.
>>> 
>>> Qt 5.15.2 contains API that eases the transition to Qt 6. So far we added workarounds for Qt 5.14, that we could remove, and we then also don’t need to add more of them in new code.
>>> 
>>> Regarding Linux distributions, Ubuntu 21 and Debian 11 seem to have Qt 5.15.2, and others too (https://pkgs.org/search/?q=qtbase)
>>> 
>>> Bump requirement to Qt 5.15.2 (I920fdccc) · Gerrit Code Review
>>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt-creator/qt-creator/+/390103
>>> 
>>> # Removing qmake as a build system for building Qt Creator itself
>>> 
>>> The CMake port is “done”, and official packages are built with CMake. The qmake build is basically untested, and maintaining it in addition is a burden. We also had a nice transitioning period of more than a year (Qt Creator 4.14 being the first version that was released based on the CMake build).
>>> 
>>> Remove qmake build files (I846c6ef6) · Gerrit Code Review
>>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt-creator/qt-creator/+/390104
>>> 
>>> Br, Eike
>>> 
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>> Eike Ziller
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>> 
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Eike Ziller
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D-12489 Berlin
eike.ziller at qt.io
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Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi,
Juha Varelius, Jouni Lintunen
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