KDE4/Qt4 minimum gcc version 3.2

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Monday 18 April 2005 03:32 pm, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Quoting Leo Savernik <l.savernik at aon.at>:
> > Am Sonntag, 17. April 2005 19:39 schrieb Gary L. Greene Jr.:
> > > > They still support MSVC++ 6.0. If Qt compiles with that one, it'll
> > > > compile with gcc 2.95 anyways.
> > > >
> > > > mfg
> > > >       Leo
> > >
> > > That's not guaranteed. MSVC++ 6.0 and gcc 2.95 are two different beasts
> > > and since _most_ ISVs are now on gcc 3.x, I can see why they feel that
> > > maintaining support for an obsolete compiler is not needed. Whereas
> > > with Windows, MSVC++ 6 is still in use by a large number of ISVs.
> >
> > It's true that MSVC++ 6 features a greater count of deployment. However,
> > given that MSVC is even older than gcc 2.95, Qt can't make use of any C++
> > features that choke MSVC. That's why gcc 2.95 compatibility should be
> > easier to ensure than if they only would've used gcc 3.4 and msvc 7.
>
> Sources for the Windows version of QT and Unix X11 version are different.
> So I can't follow your assumption:
> * Trolltech says that qt-win will compile with msvc++6,
>   so we assume that qt-x11 will compile with gcc-2.95.
> You see?

Thanks Michael for pointing out the fallacy in his arguements. See the problem 
is, gcc 2.95 isn't even standards correct for its time, which means that TT 
has to work around things that only appear in that version of compiler, case 
and point when Thiago had to work around complete brokeness in the 3.4 build 
earlier this year. (Agreed that MSVC 6 does have its own issues...) The 
corellation, however, that since it's older than 2.95 gcc makes little 
difference if the Trolls decide to drop support for it in Qt. As pointed out 
in other posts, if an upstream dependancy as important as Qt won't support 
it, I don't see the point of supporting it for KDE 4.0 either.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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