[Qgis-developer] Requiring c++17 minimum

[DelazJ]

Hi,
Nyall, +1 from me fwiw.
Actually, I've never understood why QGIS was made available on Windows. If
Windows users want to use QGIS, they just need to move away from that OS.
So easy.
Your plan is hence a good move imho.

Harrissou
Sent from my Windows phone

Le lundi 6 mars 2017, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hi Nyall,
> it's not the 1st of April right?
> In all seriousness are you really going to push such a strong requirement?
> What do you mean with "we lose the Windows builds"?!
> Giovanni
> 2017-03-06 23:00 GMT+01:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:
>>
>> 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
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