On Monday, 12 August 2019 00:45:01 PDT Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > Why not the latest for all the compilers, like gcc 9 and clang 8? I assumed > we would use the 5.15 LTS to justify requiring the latest available > compiler on all platforms. > > Especially clang 6 is a bit old. I know for msvc-clang we already pretty > much assume clang-cl 8. But we have not automated testing of non-apple > clang, so it often breaks due to extra warnings or genuine clang bugs.
Dropping Clang 6 would drop support for FreeBSD 12.0, which is the current version today. There is nothing newer (ports tree may have something, but it's not the system compiler). I think we should aim for something that is modern, but not bleeding edge today. For a release in late 2020, we should expect that people may want to use with close-to-2-year-old Linux distros. I would prefer they didn't, but I think it's reasonable for us to assume they did. We should also specifically look into what the very long term support Linux distributions and Android SDKs use. - Debian 10 (July 2019): GCC 8.3.0 - RHEL 8 (May 2019): GCC 8.2.1 - SLES 15 (June 2018): GCC 7.3.1 -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
