[Releasing] Platform and Compiler configurations for Qt 5.0 beta release

[shane.kearns at accenture.com]

I agree.
What I missed was that 12.04 is both the latest LTS and the bleeding edge (it was just released)

My opinion is that for 5.0 we should support 10.04 and 12.04
Because 12.04 is an LTS release I expect it is similar to 11.10 with all the updates applied. As Jason said, we should check behaviour in CI first.

And for 5.1 we can consider dropping 10.04 and testing the latest bleeding edge release.
However, some users will be using some other distro's stable release, so we need to be careful about when we stop testing against old versions.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com [mailto:marius.storm-
> olsen at nokia.com]
> Sent: 27 April 2012 14:45
> To: Kearns, Shane
> Cc: iikka.eklund at digia.com; releasing at qt-project.org;
> andre.poenitz at nokia.com; daniel.molkentin at nokia.com
> Subject: Re: [Releasing] Platform and Compiler configurations for Qt
> 5.0 beta release
>
>
> IMO, we should support the latest LTS and the bleeding edge, so the CI
> should test those.
>
> As for MinGW, yes we should upgrade to 4.6.2 if it proves to be stable,
> and work together with the latest gdb which we have compiled to avoid
> the long start-up times. Whatever the Qt Creator team decides to bundle
> is what we need to support.
>
> André, Daniel, any updates on the MinGW version for Qt Creator?
>
> --
> .marius
>
> On 27/04/2012 07:43, ext shane.kearns at accenture.com wrote:
> > 10.04 is the "long term support" version which they support for 3
> years.
> >
> > Currently we are testing 10.04 and 11.10 in the CI system.
> >
> > It would be reasonable to replace 11.10 with 12.04 (and replace 10.04
> > with the next LTS version when it is released)
> >
> > IIRC gcc 4.4 can't compile Qt5, gcc 4.6 is required at a minimum (but
> > that may have been fixed)
> >
> > --
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> > *From:*releasing-bounces+shane.kearns=accenture.com at qt-project.org
> > [mailto:releasing-bounces+shane.kearns=accenture.com at qt-project.org]
> > *On Behalf Of *Iikka Eklund
> > *Sent:* 27 April 2012 12:07
> > *To:* releasing at qt-project.org
> > *Subject:* [Releasing] Platform and Compiler configurations for Qt
> 5.0
> > beta release
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Would the following set of platform and compiler configurations be
> > suitable for making the binary installers for Qt 5.0 beta release:
> >
> > linux-g++-32 Ubuntu 12.04 x86 32-bit Gcc 4.4
> >
> > linux-g++-64 Ubuntu 12.04 x86 64-bit Gcc 4.4
> >
> > win32-msvc2010 Windows 7 x86 32-bit
> >
> > win64-msvc2010 Windows 7 x86 64-bit
> >
> > win32-MinGW Windows 7 x86 32-bit MinGW 4.4
> >
> > macx-g++ OSX 10.7 Cocoa x86 64-bit
> >
> > These would be the packages available through the 'Qt Project SDK'.
> >
> > Since Ubuntu 10.04 is rather old, use of 12.04 is preferred.
> > Similarly it might be good to use newer Gcc version.
> > Any insight what is the best fit?
> >
> > Are all these already running in the CI system?
> > It is important to be aligned between the CI system and release.
> >
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