[Development] Proposal: Deprecating platforms in Qt 5.6 that don't support lambda

[Sze Howe Koh]

On 20 February 2015 at 16:28, Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-
>> [...]
>> But this is an implementation convenience only. You can't convince me to
>> drop VS2010 to be able to use them internally inside Qt. Or 2008 for Win CE or
>> old gcc for blackberry or one of all the other answers that have been given in
>> those threads over the last couple of weeks.
>
> I tend to agree here, but Daniel raises a very valid point when he says:
>
>> I would expect that allowing C++11 in Qt would similarly lead to a wider understanding on how to leverage the new features for better code and better APIs.
>
> Since we don't use modern C++11 in Qt , its examples and documentation itself, there's little common understanding and best practices how to do so.
>
> So, short of using C++11 in Qt library code itself: How about if we encourage using C++11/C++14 features in examples and documentation snippets? To bootstrap this we might even do a 'porting week' once to crowd-source this...

+1

Any plans for another "Qt Fix and Polish Week"? The previous one
seemed very well-received. [1]


Regards,
Sze-Howe

[1] http://blog.qt.io/blog/2014/09/22/qt-fix-and-polish-week/