Agreed, given the upcoming change in compiler defaults, we really should at least pick /a/ standard and set it, rather than just assuming the compiler will continue to use '98.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:24:39PM +0000, Jon Neal wrote: > I understand people not wanting to even switch to C++11 as it is still > relatively new. I just wanted to point out that a standard should be put in > CMakeLists.txt. > > For now (until at least the next Ubuntu LTS comes out in April since that > seems to be the slowest updating OS to support) maybe set the C++98 as the > default, and have a compiler flag for enabling C++11? Rather than ignoring > C++11 entirely we could at least make sure that we don't have any errors > that would make switching at a later time more difficult. > > I'd be happy to provide/set up the build on jenkins. > > Jon > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:54 PM Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > For what it's worth... > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/cxx0x_status.html > > > > As of GCC 4.8.1, C++11 is pretty much fully supported. They use the term > > "experimental", but they do list everything and say "yes" to almost > > everything. Is there some compatibility issue I'm missing here? It looks > > to me like we can build C++11 on /all/ our supported platforms now. > > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 01:35:36AM +0000, Jon Neal wrote: > > > Just read this the other day and figured it would be good to discuss > > before > > > it happens. > > > > > > GCC is going to be defaulting to C++14 for compiler flags when GCC 6 is > > > released in ~6 months. I browsed the CMakeLists.txt in the root directory > > > and didn't see anything about setting a standard. Nowish would be a good > > > time to pick a C++ standard and put it in there. > > > > > > I know Wayne has mentioned in the recent past the wish to not switch to > > > C++11 yet[1] which I understand. FWIW when the next Ubuntu LTS is > > released > > > in 3 months the gcc provided will have C++11 out of experimental. Just > > food > > > for thought. > > > > > > Jon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > > Post to : [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
