On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsme...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:07:57 +0100 > Dominik Haumann <dhaum...@kde.org> wrote: [...] >> Therefore, I would like to propose v2015 as required compiler >> and Qt5.6 as required Qt version on Windows, or are there >> reasons against it? > > I'll put it the other way around. Annoying as it is, does that > QStringLiteral nuisance justify upping the requirements? Factually that > _is_ going to happen as the MSVC 2013 (and 2012) builds are > going to get less testing. But I don't think that is a state we should > actively rush into. Increased requirements always come with an > increased cost.
True, and yes, the Windows version already now has very few testers, I don't think we can maintain that in any sane way. But true, we can wait a bit more. > I don't know if anybody is producing fully official windows binaries > based on KF5, yet. But once I will be doing that for RKWard, I know I > will appreciate a somewhat stable environment. Say I just want to pull > in a fix in framework X. I may have to update some dependencies, too, > but I hope it will not mean _starting from scratch_ (new compiler, new > Qt, etc.). > > Also, suppose Qt 5.6.0 turns out to have some nasty bug that I just > can't work around. Keeping backwards compatibility with Qt 5.5 forever > is not an option, but discarding fallback options, again, carries a > cost. Yes, but then again updates will come soon. This is only a real issue if you want to release now with a buggy 5.6.0. >> Qt 5.5 is not precompiled for MSVC 2015, that's why increasing >> the Qt version should be fine, especially since 5.6 is an LTS >> version. > > Note that with Qt 5.5, MSVC 2013 was the _only_ supported compiler for > QtWebEngine, not just for pre-built binaries. So MSVC 2013 would have > been one of the most obvious choices up until one week ago. As said, we can wait with such an update. However, I still think that e.g. when people meet in Randa soon, it would make sense to have them aligned with respect to the used Qt version. Greetings, Dominik _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
