[squid-dev] FYI: the C++11 roadmap

[Tsantilas Christos]

On 11/05/2014 06:01 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
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> On 6/05/2014 2:21 a.m., Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> I have just announced the change in 3.4.5 regarding C++11 support
>> and accompanied it with a notice that GCC verion 4.8 is likely to
>> become the minimum version later this calendar year.
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>> As it stands (discussed earlier):
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>> * Squid-3.4 needs to build with any GCC 4.0+ version with C++03.
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>> * Squid-3.6 will need to build with C++11.
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>> * The Squid-3.5 situation is still in limbo and will depend on how
>> long we go before it branches.
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> Squid-3.5 retains GCC 4.0+ support shared with older versions.
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>> We have a growing list of items needing C++11 features for simpler
>> implementation. At this point I am going to throw a peg out and say
>> Sept or Oct for starting to use C++11 specific code features.

I am not finding very good idea...
There are many cases where I am looking a new class or class method 
added in c++11, which may make my life easier, but in the other hand I 
am thinking the nightmare when I should try to build a newer squid 
version in an old system.

Do we have an idea about other open-source projects built on c++?
Which are they policy?

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> This "peg" has now moved to Nov. The code cleanup and polishing
> patches now going into trunk work fine with C++11 builds but possibly
> not with compilers older than Clang 3.3 or GCC 4.8.
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> Amos
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