[Development] Dropping qtserialbus from Qt 5.6 -- it doesn't compile in C++98

[Koehne Kai]

IMO 

https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/151180/1/qtserialbus.pro

should fix it. Is there a bug report already that I can link to?

Regards

Kai

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development [mailto:development-
> bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Thiago Macieira
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2016 8:54 AM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Dropping qtserialbus from Qt 5.6 -- it doesn't
> compile in C++98
> 
> On quinta-feira, 3 de março de 2016 07:50:51 PST Knoll Lars wrote:
> > >It matters because it breaks the build.
> > >
> > >Please remove it from the build. It's ok for it to be present, but
> > >don't compile it.
> >
> >
> > Which build are you talking about? The split source packages shouldn't
> > have a problem with this.
> 
> The convenience build for the "qt-everywhere" tarball.
> 
> > For the unified source packages, we should probably simply skip the
> > module if the compiler is not c++11 compliant.
> 
> Please see Stefan Walter's email. He got failures while using -std=c++0x, so
> this trick won't work.
> 
> > But I see no reason to remove it
> > for compilers that can handle it. It's certainly not different from
> > other modules such as web engine that also have stricter requirements
> > on compilers or platforms than e.g. Qtbase.
> 
> So long as they don't break the build.
> 
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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