On Thursday 13 of August 2015 15:01:16 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > What I don't like in this story is that we set up a rule, an promise with > > users, which was broken and now it's like it does not matter. > > Yes, we did set up the rule requirements for gcc 4.5 and MSVC10 back in > 2013. > > Since then, we broke the rule and increased to MSVC11 (VS2012). > > Now, we can increase, if we want to, the gcc requirement to 4.6. > > If you think that the additional work of writing a patch, then > increasing the compiler version requirement, and then reverting the > patch is warranted, it is fine by me. > > As Lamarque pointed out, gcc 4.6 is required for Qt 5.1. KF5 requires > Qt 5.3. If someone is able to compile Qt, he will be able to compile > KF5 - I guess that is the reason this issue has passed unnoticed for > this long.
I apologize, I mixed up two different emails that came today on a similar topic. There is nothing to discuss on this, given the requirement of Qt 5.1. Please take a look also at "Minimum supported version of MSVC for frameworks" on kde-frameworks-devel. Ciao -- Luigi