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

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2025-11-26, 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.
>
> 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.

Luckily most of our frameworks doesn't require qtwebengine.

I need mingw support in many frameworks for <reasons> - and I do think
that we should support using a compile we can actually investigate as
needed even on the non-free platforms we support.

I'd love to get mingw support back in our CI stack, but I guess we have
limited machine capacity.

/Sune
 - who is frequently mingw cross compiling okular and kleopatra and
   everything they need