Supporting MSVC2010 in ktexteditor framework

[Christoph Cullmann]

> 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.
Hi,

I think all frameworks should require the same level of C++ features,
therefore either we patch ktexteditor to the same level back (which
is no big issue I think, beside the unit tests, but thats fixable)
or we raise the bar for all frameworks.

Greetings
Christoph

-- 
----------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann ---------
AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH      Email: cullmann at AbsInt.com
Science Park 1                         Tel:   +49-681-38360-22
66123 Saarbrücken                      Fax:   +49-681-38360-20
GERMANY                                WWW:   http://www.AbsInt.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Geschäftsführung: Dr.-Ing. Christian Ferdinand
Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Saarbrücken, HRB 11234