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

[Neal Gompa]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:
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>> 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)
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>> mingw as well, please :)
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> No thanks. Mingw is awful to support and I've been pushing for a while that we should drop supporting it.
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I don't think it's that bad, I do all of my Windows builds through
MinGW and it's fine.

> 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.
>

Why not? Is it just a lack of available builds? Or something else?




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