As a Mircosoft shill, I'm a super -1 on this. How will I make my money from Microsoft for making QGIS on Windows better?
:) On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:07 AM, <gor...@shieldaig.com> wrote: > Isn't it possible that g++ will also run on Windows with c++17 support or > that MSVC will have the features too, or shortly will? Why eliminate > anyone? > > Gordon > > > On 2017-03-06 17:00, Nyall Dawson wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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