On 06/03/15 09:54, "Marc Mutz" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tuesday 03 March 2015 11:30:51 Guido Seifert wrote: >> Why not make different example categories? > >a) because it's more work, less fun, and people don't work on examples >anyway, > but they might, when they can modernize them. >b) because one reason we want to have this is to experiment with >C++11-only > features in the Qt API, so come Flag Day, we don't need to poke around >the > new design space like blind men. And that means all examples should use > C++11 (and 14) to the fullest extent possible. > >Some peole here are arguing for restrictions on the use of C++11 features >in >the examples. I'm against that. It thwards pointa a) and b), imo. > >If users have older compilers, they should just use the examples from Qt >5.5. >They can literally just be copied in.
Unfortunately that’s simply not practical to implement from a packaging perspective. I understand the desire to use as modern C++ as possible, but our examples still need to work with the compilers the majority of our users are working with. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
