[gdal-dev] C++11 timeline

[Kurt Schwehr]

Andres,

Have you tried compiling GDAL 1.11 as C++11?  I used GDAL 1.11 built as
C++11 for quite a while before switching to GDAL 2.x.  We aren't talking
about changing the internal API for drivers.  Or am I missing something?

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:50 AM, Andrew C Aitchison <andrew at aitchison.me.uk>
wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016, Kurt Schwehr wrote:
>
> I would like to continue the C++11 discussion over the next couple weeks
>> while many people are on slower development cycles with a proposal:
>>
>> * Starting 2017-Mar-01, we switch GDAL trunk to require C++11 support from
>> the compiler.
>> * All prior branches would stick with their existing requirements for
>> C++03
>> support
>>
>                 ...             ...
>
>> This would not be a free-for-all on C++11 features.  I think we would want
>> to just start with removing some of the macros and workarounds that are
>> currently in the code base.  Until we decide to go forward with other
>> features, the main changes that would happen in C++ only code after this
>> would be:
>>
>> - Change NULL to nullptr
>> - Drop virtual when using the override keyword (this becomes a req with
>> C++17)
>> - CPL_OVERRIDE -> override
>> - Remove HAVE_CXX11 #ifs
>> - And maybe some other things I missed
>>
>
> Are there many people maintaining/developing *plugin* drivers for gdal
> - I know of the ECW plugins; are there any others ?
>
> I am working on a couple of private drivers for proprietary formats,
> and find it useful that I can use the same source to build plugins for
> GDAL 1.11 and 2.1.2.
>
> Would the changes to nullptr, CPL_OVERRIDE etc. make it harder to maintain
> plugin code for old and new versions of GDAL ?
>
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> Andrew C Aitchison
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