On 4/26/2013 9:18 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
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.
GCC 4.8 is fully 0x11 compliant with one minor exception (see the GCC
website for more info) and I read recently that clang was just brought
up to date in the development branch but AFAIK is not released yet. It
will be at least 1-2 years before all of the major Linux distros are
released with GCC 4.8 or the 0x11 compliant version of clang as the
default compiler. Once that happens, we can begin moving to 0x11.
Until that happens, our lives will not be much fun as Dick found out
with std::unique_ptr.
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
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