On 04/26/2013 04:50 PM, Felix Morgner wrote: > Hi there > > I think I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm a hobbyist programmer and > mechanic by trade. I got into electronics about 2-3 years back with my first > micro controller experience using an Arduino. Since then I've been searching > for a good free open-source tool to draw schematics and pcb layouts. I > quickly found KiCad and I really do like it. Since I am using mostly Apple > Macintosh systems to do my programming and designing, I'm currently focusing > my efforts on the OS X side of things regarding KiCad (I did some work on the > KicadOSXBuilder script that was created by Miguel - Thanks again btw!). Most > of my programming in the last couple of years was focused on Objective-C, but > I'm moving back to C++ more and more. I hope to be able to contribute a good > amount of work to KiCad. > > Now on to my proposal/question. I propose to move forward and start using > modern C++11 techniques to, for example, replace the BOOST_FOREACH with the > range based for loop available in C++11. There might be other things where > C++ might be of interest in KiCad. My question regarding this proposal is, if > there are any reasons NOT to move to C++11. > > Greetings, Felix
Hi Felix, I thought we tried that about 7 months ago and we ran into problems. IIRC it was that not everyone is using a new enough compiler? In any case you may want to search the commit logs for that keyword, then use the date to go search the mailing list archives. I introduced the command line option, that then forced us to switch to std::unique_ptr to avoid getting yelled at by the compiler. In the end, we scampered back to previous status quo and seem to be living happily ever since. So the answer to your question is definitely yes. But I cannot tell you specifically. You can find that yourself from the mailing list archives. Dick _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
