Hi Nyall, it's not the 1st of April right? In all seriousness are you really going to push such a strong requirement? What do you mean with "we lose the Windows builds"?!
Giovanni 2017-03-06 23:00 GMT+01:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > I read on phoronix this morning that c++17 is nearly ready. I think > it's time we made this the minimum build dependency for QGIS (3.0 and > 2.18.5, and maybe 2.14 (but not sure about 2.14 since it's the LTS - > can someone file a QEP?)). > > Advantages: > - has some neat stuff like parallel algorithms > - can use std::variant instead of qvariant and std::optional instead > of QgsOptional > - 17 is bigger than 11 > > Disadvantages: > - I think we lose the Windows builds. That's a shame, but we need to > move forward. > - OSX users will need to build their own version of clang/llvm from > git. That's ok - they are used to things that "just work" so I think > they'll quickly adapt to this process. > - Linux users will need to update to the next beta version of their > distro. This is just a short-term inconvenience and I'm pretty sure > no-one will lose productivity because of it. > > I'm certain this is the way forward, so I'll push a change later today > requiring this. > > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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