Supporting MSVC2010 in ktexteditor framework

[Milian Wolff]

On Wednesday 05 November 2014 14:35:07 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wednesday 05 November 2014 09:25:27 Mirko Boehm wrote:
> > > On 05 Nov 2014, at 09:02, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > > 
> > > In the case of VC there's no such compiler yet. Even VS2013 is not 100%
> > > compliant.
> > 
> > There will always be small differences.
> 
> We're not talking about small differences here. We're talking about
> boatloads of unusable features.
> 
> > From what I can tell, those Windows developers that contribute use more
> > modern VC compilers than 2010.
> 
> That's why I said let's bump it to 2012 in my previous email:
> "I'd then propose as a possibility a more reasoned approach: bump the
> dependency from VC2010 to VC2012, in turn white list more of the C++11
> features."
> 
> I see 2013 almost nowhere yet. VS14 is not out yet, that's the only one
> which will be fully compliant.
> 
> VS2012 hits the sweet spot of being relatively widespread while starting to
> have a useful subset of C++11 (case in point ktexteditor which prompted this
> thread builds with it).

Yes, let's go for 2012 everywhere!

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