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

[Turunen Tuukka]

On 27.4.2012 17.11, "shane.kearns at accenture.com"
<shane.kearns at accenture.com> wrote:

>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.

Sounds really good for me.


>
>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.

And this as well.

Yours,

Tuukka

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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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