[Development] -no-stl no longer supported

[Diego Iastrubni]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Alexis Menard >
>
>  > Actually, I tested about 2 years ago the Digital Mars C++ compiler. This
> > failed nicely and was not able to compile the container classe, and you
> were
> > aware of this :)
> >
> > I might be bored again and test if the compiler now works better. Is
> anyone
> > interested?
>
> Realistically speaking how many users we are targeting here?
>

2,  Maybe PI, probably E people :)



> Last version was almost 2 years ago. Does it even run on modern
> Windows? I'm not even sure its status concerning 64 bits.
>
> Not even yourself wants to try it again. You even mentioned that you
> *tested* it so I believe you don't even ship your app code with this
> compiler.
>

I was between jobs 2 years ago and got bored. That time I started looking
also at clang. I did not ship any code compiled using any of those
compilers.

Back then the compiler I tested did not support for partial templates. I
see messages there claiming to support C++0x. Hell, if it works, do you
really care adding 2-3 new qmake.specs?

So maintaining some stuff just for the sake of it leads to wasted
> effort where people could be *more* useful.
>

You are under the impression that my working on this on my spare time, not
paid by anyone will take time from this project. I kindly disagree.


> It's in Qt4 the way it is, then it's fine.
>
> We supported way too long broken and old compilers.
>
>
So, the barrier for Qt5 is a compiler that supports C++0x? Not a bad idea.
If we want to build modern applications, on moden operating systems, then
modern tools are a must.

>From my point of view as a developer - Qt5.0, Qt5.1 will be  more or less
beta designed for earliy adopters which will have new tools anyway. If by
the time Qt5.2 comes there are new compilers witghout C++0x support - they
can die cause lack of market.

I assume Qt4 will not vanish for the next 2 years, and by then Qt5+C++0x
compilers will be more mature and popular, so people still have tools to
develop great applications. Yes, Qt4 is great, it actually runs my PC with
linux.

Again - just my point of view as indipendent developer. Maybe more
commercial customers will have different opinions then me.

With some luck maybe Qt5 will push the usage of C++0x and leaving legacy
compilers.
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