Supported Compilers / C++11 Support in KF5

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 21 July 2013, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, 14:11:07 schrieb Volker Krause:
> > On Sunday 21 July 2013 13:52:06 Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > > Volker Krause wrote:
> > > > - GCC >= 4.5
> > > > 
> > > > - override
> > > 
> > > Explicit virtual overrides require g++ 4.7:
> > > 
> > > http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html
> > 
> > you are right, it's also what all other sources referenced in
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.frameworks/3652 say, no
> > idea how that slipped in then, sorry.
> > 
> > > This is trivially to work around by a CMake time check and then just
> > > define
> > > override to empty.
> > 
> > sure, for KF5 this is not really a problem since Qt provides
> > corresponding macros already. I was hoping for real unconditional usage
> > though, since Akonadi will need to stay backward-compatible with Qt4 for
> > a while longer, and I wanted to avoid to have to basically copy
> > qcompilerdetection.h for that. Not to mention that "override" looks much
> > nicer than
> > "Q_DECL_OVERRIDE" ;)
> 
> I totally agree with that. As I said: detection of this is trivial at CMake
> time, maybe I get my C++ feature detection package ready even to be
> included in 2.8.12, and if not the stuff can easily be extracted. And

Yes, that would be great :-)
You still wanted to have a rweview, right ?

Alex