On 9 November 2015 at 22:11, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 11:51:30AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote: >> >> Fair enough, but you won't get away with that for long :-P >> >> Qt 5.6 will be the last release to support building in C++98 mode. Starting >> with Qt 5.7, a great deal of C++11 will be mandatory and the minimum version >> of Xcode will be 5.1. > > I'll burn that bridge when we get there. > > But I have an important question in that context. Will you be required to > use C++11 nonsense to USE Qt or will you be required to use a compiler > that supports this nonsense to BUILD Qt? > > Because if Qt wants to stay somewhat compatible to its existing user base > then it should be careful about staying USABLE with C++98 mode... > > But what this might mean is that Subsurface will try to stay on Qt 5.6 for > quite a while. Given that it's the long term release that may not be > entirely unreasonable either. >
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-June/022090.html CopperSpice is Qt fork discussed in the above thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIiwBNvTllk i'm quickly skipping trough it ATM. these CopperSpice people give an interesting talk about open source, moc, Qt contribution licensing. they do use strictly C++11 though. lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
