[PATH] fix broken mac build on old clangs.

Lubomir I. Ivanov neolit123 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 13:21:09 PST 2015


On 9 November 2015 at 22:11, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> 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
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