On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:00 +0200, Vincent Geddes wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Any chance of using C99 for GTK+ 3.0? its a pretty good improvement >> over ANSI C in many respects. > > I'm sure, but gtk+ is using C89, which is already a good improvement > over ANSI C. > > anyway, I very much doubt that the compilers landscape changed since the > last discussion on this list, so it's quite pointless to discuss a > switch now.
Why? People stop using really old software all the time. More people use C99 capable compilers today than ever before. > you can already write applications in C99; using it in gtk+ doesn't buy > us much and would make it impossible for gtk+ itself to be compiled on > some supported platforms. Here is an overview: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/2/23/194544/139. Merely the initialization inside the for loop feature is a huge improvement. But I never understood why someone needs to build the latest and greatest GTK+ on an ancient compiler. Installing a recent version of gcc isn't that difficult. I hope that this discussion will be moot some time in the near future anyway, when gcc starts to ship with c99 enabled by default. -- mvh Björn _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list