Re: Using C++11

[Kalev Lember <kalevlember gmail com>]

On 08/12/2015 05:08 AM, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 14:59 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote:
> > On 07/02/2015 10:31 AM, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > Does anyone object to us requiring C++11 as long as we don't break ABI?
> > > There's a reasonable chance that this won't break ABI.
> >
> > How does this play with gtkmm 2.4? If glibmm now requires C++11, does it
> > mean that gtkmm 2.4 and legacy apps that are still on gtkmm 2.4 need to
> > be built with std=c++11 as well?
>
> Yes, if that's possible. I'd accept patches to fix C++11 build problems
> in gtkmm 2.4, if you find any.

Thanks. I guess a new tarball release might be nice that passes
--std=c++11 to the compiler.

> But really, people should stop using gtkmm 2.4.

Right, well, a bunch of major projects are still on gtkmm-2.4, such as
Inkscape and I am not sure if they even have plans to port to gtkmm 3 at
this point.

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Kalev