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

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 4:20 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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?
>

WebEngine is a fickle creature to compile at the best of times. It's been
the source of more than a few headaches over the years.
For proprietary OSes it is essentially supported by Qt only on the platform
provided native compilers - so AppleClang/XCode on macOS, and MSVC/Visual
Studio on Windows.


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Thanks,
Ben
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