C++11 & friends

[Kevin Funk]

On Monday, 12 September 2016 09:10:46 CEST Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> 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. 

Alright, thanks for letting us know.

> 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.

VS2015 is no longer 'bleeding edge', it's at Update 3 already and in my 
experience it's a highly reliable version of VS to this date.

That said, depending on VS2013 sounds fine to me of course.

Cheers,
Kevin

> > 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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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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