I'd prefer option I, because saying "I want X" feels more precise and to
the point than "I don't want Y". In a restaurant, you don't order "not
fish", do you?


On 09.03.2017 14:13, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> This is a straw poll to see if we should change qmake's behaviour for Qt 5.9.
>
> GCC 6 and ICC 17, in the absence of -std= comipler options, default ot C++14. 
> So I have two questions:
>
> 1) is there a need for qmake to provide a way to select *exactly* C++11, not 
> a 
> later, available version?
>
> 2) if the answer is "yes", how would you prefer to do so?
>       option I:               CONFIG += c++11
>       option II:      CONFIG -= c++14         (obviously disables later 
> editions too)
>
> I want to first get just gut feeling, so I won't post pros and cons of the 
> approaches.

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