On 7 March 2017 at 09:32, Nathan Woodrow <madman...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > > :)
I dunno. But some guy blocked me on twitter a couple of weeks ago because QGIS is available on Windows. That hurt my feelings. Nyall > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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