Hi, All-- Since the thread slowed down, here's the summary (for posterity):
QUESTION: WHAT MSVC COMPILER VERSION DESIRED FOR Qt5, TIER-1? MSVC++2005:(0-1) : X MSVC++2008: (7) : XXXXXXX MSVC++2010: (6) : XXXXXX MSVC++2012: (2) : XX ** More Notes/Comments ** MSVC++2005: - 2005 was stable and fast, miss that MSVC++2008: - Multiple Qt4 products on 2008, very slow to convert to 2010 MSVC++2010: - some new C++11 features - currently intended as Tier-1 for Win7x64 MSVC++2012: - would-be-nice for more C++11 features - appears to address some concerns about 2010 - may not install MSVC2012 until SP1 comes out - intended to be supported for Qt5 at some point, unsure of configurations Other: - several developers (3+) using both MSVC2008 and MSVC2010 to support existing products, cannot move entirely to MSVC2010 (yet). - MSVC is best-in-the-industry for "integrated-debugging", but concerns exist about future-of-MSVC in-general ---------------------- Final comment: ---------------------- I agree with Bob that the MSVC-integrated-debugging is the best-in-the-industry (the main reason we use it), and also agree that I'm quite concerned about the future-of-IDEs and the (stupid) Web-ification (!!?? "Developer-Facebook-Points" for generating every possible "Compiler-Warning"?!!) It seems like users dealing with existing-product-support are "straddling" both MSVC2008/MSVC2010 for multiple internal Qt4 products, where more-work would be required to fully migrate to MSVC2010 (i.e., to drop reliance upon MSVC2008). There seems to be some interest in moving to MSVC2012 to get new C++11 features. For example, we would skip MSVC2010 entirely and move from MSVC2008 directly to MSVC2012. We happen to be running "Win7x64" as an operating system, but only need to generate 32-bit applications. (So our "target-configuration" is for 32-bit apps on 64-bit operating system, we deploy the same binaries to other 32-bit operating systems.) I realize this is an "unscientific" poll. I'm not advocating at this time, so I didn't further pursue this topic (such as by posting a "Poll" in the qt-project forums). Vendors might consider doing that to ensure supported platforms appropriately target their user base. --charley
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