starseeker (Dec 13 2020 at 19:15): starseeker (Dec 13 2020 at 19:15):I see Qt6 is out, and they have a CMake build now.
Sean (Dec 13 2020 at 19:15):Yup, I attended the conference last week. Pretty cool stuff!
starseeker (Dec 13 2020 at 19:15):https://wiki.qt.io/Building_Qt_6_from_Git
starseeker (Dec 13 2020 at 19:15):/me tries building it...
Sean (Dec 13 2020 at 19:16):Lots of interesting bits, but looks like they're embracing cmake hard now.
starseeker (Dec 13 2020 at 19:16):Glad to see they didn't try any tricks with holding back the source for 6 months...
starseeker (Dec 13 2020 at 19:21):Oof. C++17 minimum. Well, I guess It'll be a while anyway before 6 is shaken out enough for us to target it...
Sean (Dec 13 2020 at 23:37):Yep, I think that's fine for GUI. It's just not something we'd want to spread to the core libs
scorp08 (Dec 14 2020 at 10:44):starseeker said:
Glad to see they didn't try any tricks with holding back the source for 6 months...
is C+17 compiler support coming to brl , ready to rock open source cad projects :)))
starseeker (Dec 14 2020 at 14:08):Our core codebase is still capped at C/C++11 standards right now. We tend to stick with older standards until there's some compelling feature or need that motivates requiring the newer standards, since the shift means older platforms will cease to work with the newer versions. The GUI (as opposed to the core) may opt for a different approach - we don't want to get stuck with an older Qt API when the newer one is available, and modern GUIs are usually problematic on older platforms anyway - but an across the board move to C++17 is probably not imminent.
starseeker (Dec 14 2020 at 14:13):For example, if we develop and demonstrate a command subprocess communication system using Cap’n Proto that allows us to Ctrl-c interrupt our GED commands without bringing down the main application, that would be compelling enough to motivate consideration of requiring C++14 (needed for capnproto). But we'd need to actually have the feature in hand before we introduced the requirement, since libged and GED commands are part of the core library set.
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