Proposal: Remove "Frameworks compiler requirements and Modern C++" from Policies

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:

> On 2025-11-25, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > B) KDE Frameworks shall compile with the major compilers: gcc, clang and
> > msvc(for Frameworks that claim Windows support)
>
> mingw as well, please :)
>

No thanks. Mingw is awful to support and I've been pushing for a while that
we should drop supporting it.

The only reason it is around is because we have autotools based
dependencies, and the correct fix for those is to either get the dependency
to use a real build system or to drop them in favour of something that is
reasonable.
Anything requiring QtWebEngine cannot be built with MingW anyway.



>
> /Sune
>

Cheers,
Ben
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