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 _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
