On Fri, 23 Dec 2016, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
I would like to continue the C++11 discussion over the next couple weeks
while many people are on slower development cycles with a proposal:
* Starting 2017-Mar-01, we switch GDAL trunk to require C++11 support from
the compiler.
* All prior branches would stick with their existing requirements for C++03
support
... ...
This would not be a free-for-all on C++11 features. I think we would want
to just start with removing some of the macros and workarounds that are
currently in the code base. Until we decide to go forward with other
features, the main changes that would happen in C++ only code after this
would be:
- Change NULL to nullptr
- Drop virtual when using the override keyword (this becomes a req with
C++17)
- CPL_OVERRIDE -> override
- Remove HAVE_CXX11 #ifs
- And maybe some other things I missed
Are there many people maintaining/developing *plugin* drivers for gdal
- I know of the ECW plugins; are there any others ?
I am working on a couple of private drivers for proprietary formats,
and find it useful that I can use the same source to build plugins for
GDAL 1.11 and 2.1.2.
Would the changes to nullptr, CPL_OVERRIDE etc. make it harder to maintain
plugin code for old and new versions of GDAL ?
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Andrew C Aitchison
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