On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cu...@kde.org> wrote:
> >> I prefer the first option, it's the way forward and if someone was using > > > > I'd say that requiring a newer gcc just like that would go against the > > nature of the KF5 project. > > I don't really see why it is "against the nature of KF5". It would not > be the first time we require a higher compiler version than the one > required by the Qt version we require. > > Qt 5.5 requires gcc 4.8 for linux and windows. So even they increment > the versions from time to time. > > We can switch everything to Q_NULLPTR even without anyone complaining > about it, but we will have to switch back in a few releases. > > Cheerio, > Ivan > Qt 5.1 is still officially supported [1] and its minimum requirement is gcc 4.6.1 on Linux platform, 4.4.1 on Arm and 4.2 on OS X (?!). Qt 5.5 can be compiled with gcc 4.6.3 according to [1], so bumping the requirement to 4.6.1 seems reasonable. [1] http://doc.qt.io/QtSupportedPlatforms/ Lamarque V. Souza http://planetkde.org/pt-br
