C++11 & friends

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 12 September 2016 at 08:04, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, 11 September 2016 03:21:21 CEST Dominik Haumann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just saw a commit by Volker turning nullptr into Q_NULLPTR with the
> > comment that Visual Studio 2012 does not support nullptr.
> >
> > While this change is trivial for obvious reasons, do we really need to do
> > that?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> nullptr is actually supported since VS2010 [1].
>
> Some other remark: I think noone's using anything below VS2015 for testing
> KDE
> on Windows anyway. I'm expecting compilation to be broken on earlier
> versions
> of VS.
>

​I am not only testing but also using/depend on 2013, which has quite some
C++11 features already. The builds of KF5 just work (this is not a CI, this
is building from time to time). Sometimes patching is needed here and there
because of completely unnecessary - for my context - dependency of
kdoctools. Things improved here in 2016 anyway.

If not for other reasons, please note that people may depend on < 2015
because some other component is not supported on 2015 or because od the
boss'/customer's request.

​I think fixing on a 'beedin​g edge' compiler may be not the best strategy,
yet I see no reason to be much less flexible in this regard than Qt is.


>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> [1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support for evidence
>
> > I am raising this question especially since KTextEditor seems to use
> > 'nullptr' in several locations now for several releases - and noone
> > complained.
> >
> > Are we supposed to turn nullptr in KTextEditor also into nullptr, or
> > can we take the liberty and ditch Q_NULLPTR completely for all
> > frameworks?
> >
> > Same also applies to 'override'.
> >
> > Best,
> > Dominik
>
>
> --
> Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org




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