Supporting MSVC2010 in ktexteditor framework

[Cristian Oneț]

2014-11-05 9:58 GMT+02:00 Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2014 08:53:42 Mirko Boehm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> > On 05 Nov 2014, at 04:33, Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > So, I hereby propose making an exception and bumping the minimum
>> > compiler version *for ktexteditor only* to MSVC2012. Opinions?
>>
>> I propose to bump the required compiler versions across the board to
>> compilers that fully 100% implement C++11. It is 2014 and C++14 is
>> finalised. And we are a Free Software project and none of our compilers
>> have any problems with that.
>
> I support this. I'm currently facing the problem that at some point we might
> want kwayland to become a framework to be able to be used in
> kwindowsystem. But the compiler requirements would not allow it, although it
> doesn't make any sense for the case of kwayland (nobody is going to use that
> on Windows).
>
> So in stead of adding one exception after the other, just go the full way and
> raise the requirement.
>
> The fact that we don't have a CI to test it just shows even more that we need
> to raise the minimum requirement.
>

+1, we came to this conclusion when we discussed this issue at Randa
(in the KDE SDK group), C++11 rules out MSVC 2010 and there is really
no reason to keep backward compatibility.

Regards,
Cristian

> Cheers
> Martin
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