On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 01:23:25PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2015 20:20:46 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > > And all for what? What do people gain by passing -no-c++11 today? > > > > they can (at least hypothetically) test their stuff with older language > > versions without installing a second compiler (and forcing qt to use it, > > which is a royal pita). > > They who? > > Do you mean "we", as in developers of Qt itself? > yes, i mean us.
> Is this really required or should people edit the mkspec? > hacking an mkspec is two orders of magnitude more effort (especially when you try to automate it, or make it more or less permanent). > Aside from an option for the CI to test non- C++11, why do we need it? > i think even that would be already a good enough reason. > If you mean any other group of people, I don't see how they're relevant. > somebody who's developing on a modern platform but is ultimately targeting (also) a more, ehm, retarded one, will appreciate it. for the same reason why it's nice to have QT_DEPRECATED_SINCE and \since in apidocs. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
