C++11 & friends

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 12 September 2016 at 09:10, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:

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

​That said, I'd be OK to set coding standard to use nullptr and override
keywords directly without macros as these are both supported since 2012.


>
>>
>> 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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> --
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>
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-- 
regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

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