C++/library requirements for Plasma 5.26

[Nicolas Fella]

On 07/07/2022 14:08, Nicolas Fella wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for Plasma 5.26 I would like to make use of some C++20 features, in
> particular coroutines.
>
> In terms of compiler requirements this should translate to requiring GCC
> 10 or Clang 11.
>
> In addition we would like to require the qcoro library
> (https://github.com/danvratil/qcoro). As per
> https://github.com/danvratil/qcoro/issues/85 the library can be
> considered stable and is regularly released.
>
> Is there any distribution that plans to ship Plasma 5.26 that cannot
> fulfill these requirements?
>
> To test whether your system provides the necessary bits you can try
> building
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1023 or
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nm/-/merge_requests/124
>
> Let me know of there are any problems with this plan.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nico

Ignoring the question of coroutines for a moment. I have not seen any
objections against the compiler version requirements proposed.

Unless someone objects to this soon I'd like to at least formalize that
part.

Cheers

Nico