Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-05-08 Thread Vladimir Minenko via Development
Hello all, FYI in this subject: https://www.qt.io/blog/moving-to-msvc-2022-in-qt-68 -- Vladimir On 12. Apr 2024, at 14:04, Oliver Wolff via Development wrote: Hey hey On 15/03/2024 16:47, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Monday, 5 February 2024 01:44:29 PDT Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: I was

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-04-12 Thread Oliver Wolff via Development
Hey hey On 15/03/2024 16:47, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Monday, 5 February 2024 01:44:29 PDT Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: I was trying to drop support for it in qtwebengine in 6.7, but the problem was it was still used for qt packaging. But if we could at least switch packing to vs2022, it

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-03-15 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday, 5 February 2024 01:44:29 PDT Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > I was trying to drop support for it in qtwebengine in 6.7, but the problem > was it was still used for qt packaging. But if we could at least switch > packing to vs2022, it would mean we could drop it in QWE. Can we commit to

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-09 Thread Kai Köhne via Development
> MSVC2019 and MSVC2022 is supposed to be compatible. So in theory at least > packages made with MSVC2022 is still usable for MSVC2019 as well. It is just a > question of which compiler we use to generate the binaries with. That's not the case, at least according to Microsoft

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-09 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Friday, 9 February 2024 10:59:07 CET Vladimir Minenko via Development wrote: > Hi, > > I also think we should first get the 2022 compiler packages available for > installation in parallel to the 2019 ones. This should be available for > users for a while so that they have a transition period.

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-09 Thread Jani Heikkinen via Development
-> br, Jani From: Development On Behalf Of Vladimir Minenko via Development Sent: perjantai 9. helmikuuta 2024 11.59 To: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8) Hi, I also think we should first get the 2022 compiler packages availa

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-09 Thread Vladimir Minenko via Development
Hi, I also think we should first get the 2022 compiler packages available for installation in parallel to the 2019 ones. This should be available for users for a while so that they have a transition period. Along with this, we should announce that the 2019 compiler will be dismissed by a

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-05 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Tuesday, 6 February 2024 06:57:34 CET Jani Heikkinen via Development wrote: > > How about instead we drop at an LTS+2 release? The next one is actually > > 6.7. > We can't switch this in 6.7 at this point anymore; we don't have packages > for MSVC2022 at the moment and doing this (adding new

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-05 Thread Jani Heikkinen via Development
> > How about instead we drop at an LTS+2 release? The next one is actually 6.7. > We can't switch this in 6.7 at this point anymore; we don't have packages for MSVC2022 at the moment and doing this (adding new packages + removing ones) change this late of process is too risky br, Jani --

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-05 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday, 5 February 2024 01:39:47 PST Marc Mutz via Development wrote: > I think we don't drop supported compilers, except in LTS+1 releases (6.9 > being the next). I would advise you drop it before the LTS, so you don't have to keep supporting it for however long your LTS cycle is. How about

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-05 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Saturday, 3 February 2024 18:08:25 CET Thiago Macieira wrote: > The compiler is pretty buggy and has several, unfixed conformance issues > with C++. > > One year ago I asked on the interest mailing list about using a non-latest > MSVC: >

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-05 Thread Marc Mutz via Development
I think we don't drop supported compilers, except in LTS+1 releases (6.9 being the next). On 03.02.24 18:08, Thiago Macieira wrote: > The compiler is pretty buggy and has several, unfixed conformance issues with > C++. > > One year ago I asked on the interest mailing list about using a

Re: [Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-03 Thread Bob Babcock
Thiago Macieira wrote in news:2865734.Ex9A2HvPv6@tjmaciei-mobl5: > * because our builds are labelled "msvc2019" Does the label reflect the compiler used? (I know 2019 and 2022 are binary compatible.) I haven't bothered to build the most recent 5.15.x open source version, but back at

[Development] Let's drop MSVC 2019 for dev (6.8)

2024-02-03 Thread Thiago Macieira
The compiler is pretty buggy and has several, unfixed conformance issues with C++. One year ago I asked on the interest mailing list about using a non-latest MSVC: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2023-January/038859.html The reasons reported for not going to the next were: *