Re: [Development] Windows 7 support future removal

2018-08-23 Thread Lars Knoll
> On 24 Aug 2018, at 08:24, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:11:09 PDT Lars Knoll wrote: >> We know that quite some users stay on unsupported versions of Windows for >> quite a while. I wonder whether it wouldn’t be easiest in this case to then >> drop Windows 7 with Qt 6

Re: [Development] Windows 7 support future removal

2018-08-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:11:09 PDT Lars Knoll wrote: > We know that quite some users stay on unsupported versions of Windows for > quite a while. I wonder whether it wouldn’t be easiest in this case to then > drop Windows 7 with Qt 6.0 in Autumn 2020 (ie. in the release after 5.15). I don't

Re: [Development] Windows 7 support future removal

2018-08-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:03:43 PDT Thiago Macieira wrote: > Since we're talking about macOS 10.11 and I came across the Windows support > lifetime pages, I'm posting this for future reference. > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet > > Windows 7 ends

Re: [Development] Windows 7 support future removal

2018-08-23 Thread Lars Knoll
> On 24 Aug 2018, at 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Since we're talking about macOS 10.11 and I came across the Windows support > lifetime pages, I'm posting this for future reference. > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet > > Windows 7 ends its Ext

[Development] Windows 7 support future removal

2018-08-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
Since we're talking about macOS 10.11 and I came across the Windows support lifetime pages, I'm posting this for future reference. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet Windows 7 ends its Extended Support lifecycle on January 14, 2020, roughly a year and a

Re: [Development] override keyword on destructors

2018-08-23 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 2018-08-20 09:58, Kevin Funk wrote: > IMO, it would also be nice to get a compiler warning/error if a > base class' destructor is changed from virtual to non-virtual which may cause > subtle behavioral changes such as memory leaks. You mean something like -Wnon-virtual-dtor? Granted, it's no

Re: [Development] Qt 5.12 new features

2018-08-23 Thread Tuukka Turunen
Hi Vlad, While deprecated, Qt Quick Controls 1 is still part of Qt 5.12, so you can continue using it. It’s performance is not adequate for many use cases, and Qt Quick Controls 2 fixed that. Qt Quick Controls 2 is the one we are actively developing and it adds many nice features in Qt 5.12.