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

[Knoll Lars]

On 03/03/16 08:54, "Development on behalf of Thiago Macieira" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org on behalf of thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>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.

I guess he's using gcc 4.4 or something similar. One solution could be to add a configure test and disable the module if it doesn't pass.
>
>> 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.

Agree, it shouldn't break the build.

Cheers,
Lars