[Interest] C++11 in Qt5

Giuseppe D'Angelo dangelog at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 22:52:38 CEST 2012


On 11 June 2012 21:35, Scott Aron Bloom <Scott.Bloom at onshorecs.com> wrote:
> Can someone part of the Qt project, explain the reasoning for this…
>
> While in general I love the idea… In specific, I have had customers that are
> 5-10 years behind in their compiler choice..
>
> Usually in the embedded world, where the processor doesn’t have a current
> version of gcc, but this does worry me that many people will be excluded
> from Qt 5.0

I think there's a misunderstanding: C++11 support IS NOT required to
use or build Qt 5. If you have a recent compiler and enable C++11
support in Qt, then you get those nice extra features. Otherwise you
don't. But you can still use Qt 5 without them :)

HTH,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo



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