[Qt-interest] QT windows visual studio 2008 version

[Constantin Makshin]

IMHO, that's an acceptable approach only if Qt developers don't force system upgrades by using new language features unavailable in previous VS versions (C++0x or something VS2010-specific, I don't think there are [significant] backward-incompatible changes in "classic" C++).

On Tuesday 06 July 2010 18:55:53 Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch wrote:
> Thiago Macieira wrote on Sunday, July 04, 2010 6:09 PM:
> 
> > ...
> > However, in fact, I agree with you: we must move faster. So what I'd
> > like us to do is stop supporting anything but the latest compiler,
> > plus switch to the latest from one patch release to the next. What do
> > you think?
> 
> I think this would be a very reasonable decision, because
> 
> - people who love to change quickly their toolchains/Qt would be happy to receive the latest of greatest binaries and 
> - people who don't like frequent changes are not affected very much, because they probaly also upgrade their Qt version only once in a while (so they can as well rebuild Qt from source every once a year ;)
> 
> (and it would give me a real reason soon to upgrade my VS2005 installation - even though now I am using Qt Creator/MinGW for the time being ;)
> 
> Cheers, Oliver