[gdal-dev] RFC68: C++11 compilation mode - Call for vote on adoption

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 6 September 2017 at 19:11, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> On mercredi 6 septembre 2017 19:04:34 CEST Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>> On 6 September 2017 at 18:58, Andrew Bell <andrew.bell.ia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> Now that Tamas has added the msvc2015/2-17SDK's, I'd like to call a
>> >> vote
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>> >> by the PSC on RFC68: C++11 compilation mode.
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>> >> The draft is here:
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>> >> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc68_cplusplus11
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>> > I'm late to the party, but I guess I don't understand a few things in
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>> > RFC.
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>> > In Plan: If c++11 mode is enabled, won't ALL code need to be C++11
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>> > compliant, rather than just new code?
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>> Any existing code which does not compile as C++11 will have to be updated.
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> This is mostly a theoretical case. We have buildbots that compile in C++11
> and ran tests for a couple of years now (and one in C++14). And by default
> (since GDAL 2.2 I think) ./configure already enables C++11 on all C++11
> capable compilers.

Yes, indeed.

I gave a 'generic' answer.

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net