[Interest] Qt 5.5.0 WebEngine module with MSVC2010

Volker Enderlein volker.enderlein at ifm-chemnitz.de
Sun Oct 25 14:35:54 CET 2015


Am 23.10.2015 um 22:21 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> On Friday 23 October 2015 18:35:22 Reinhardt Behm wrote:
>> Wouldn't it not be a bit strange if a compiler from 2010 supported a
>> standard from 2011? ;-)
>
> No, not really. It's strange that a compiler from 2010 does *not* support
> enough features of the standard that was then known as C++0x. The standard had
> been in development for years, so the compiler authors were completely aware
> of changes coming.
>
> GCC started adding C++0x features in version 4.3. Version 4.5 was released in
> 2010 and had a lot features, though by no means complete. By 2012, with the
> 4.7 release, it was almost feature-complete.
>
> And yet, when we discussed what C++11 features we'll allow in Qt 5.7, we came
> to the conclusion that MSVC 2012 is the lowest common denominator.
>

I expect that with the recent change of the Visual Studio release model 
Microsoft is including the missing features of the C++11 and C++14 
standards way faster than they would have done before.

Cheers

Volker




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