Pro tip: This was a joke by Nyall :) Us Australians have a bad habit of assuming people get the dry humour we have.
:D On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Worth Lutz <[email protected]> wrote: > I have customers who use Windows and QGIS. They will not be changing their > OS as QGIS is not their major task. > I have others who would be QGIS users if we could convince them to try > it. But they too have other tasks which are limited to Windows. > Unfortunately not all users have the option to change. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 6, 2017, at 6:35 PM, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 7 March 2017 at 09:32, Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> 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, <[email protected]> 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 > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Qgis-developer mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Qgis-developer mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-developer mailing list > > [email protected] > > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > >
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