[Development] Platform / compiler support

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 7 de November de 2011 23:10:03 Olivier Goffart wrote:
> I know the difference.
> But still, that API can be disabled for compiler not supporting that
> feature  (as this was the case wth QtConcurrent on symbian, or as this was
> the case with QObject::findChildren<> on VC6)

We should really avoid that. The VC6 suppressions were bad and thankfully a 
thing of the past. But QtConcurrent not being available with RVCT is the 
perfect example: a major Qt feature is not available.

In reality, we won't have a major creep in of features, but over time it could 
happen. Imagine a Q_DECLARE_METATYPE with variadic macros to solve the problem 
of the comma in templates. As soon as people start using that in their code, 
which would be soon, a C99 preprocessor is mandatory.

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