[Development] Qt LTS & C++11 plans (CopperSpice)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 30 June 2015 23:09:59 Cristian Adam wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > You're making trade-offs. One of them, given your presentation, is that
> > there's
> > no current version of MSVC that will work with your codebase. Another is
> > that
> > you're replacing a code generator by a lot of boilerplate macros.
> 
> Visual Studio 2015 will have constexpr fixed [1] and it should compile
> CopperSpice.

It's still not working in MSVC 2015 RC1. I'd be wary of relying on RTM fixing 
it if it's still not fixed yet.

> The replacement of qmake with autotools in CopperSpice makes things very
> hard to
> test with Visual Studio. It seems CMake is being under evaluation [2].
> 
> The combination of CMake and ninja is quite effective.

Autotools is backwards direction. Everyone moves *away* from Autotools, not 
towards it (except people who had no buildsystem in the first place).

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center