Hello again WebKitten! April 2018 is fast approaching, which means that we might be able to require GCC 6 and all the great C++17 features that’ll come with it. So what say you? From C++17 it looks like we wouldn’t get quite a few things, but we’d be able to use a few nice things (see the table <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support>).
JF > On Aug 4, 2017, at 16:00, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@igalia.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Yusuke SUZUKI <utatane....@gmail.com> wrote: >> Possibly, mcatanzaro and clopez know much about WebKitGTK+ compiler >> dependencies. > > As a result of the C++14 discussion on this list a few months ago, we relaxed > our dependencies policy [1] to allow upgrading to GCC 5 one year earlier than > planned, to the displeasure of some of our distributors who now have to build > a custom compiler as part of their WebKit builds. We would prefer not to > relax the policy further. > > Our current schedule looks like: > > * GCC 6 could be required in April 2018 (next Ubuntu LTS release) > * GCC 7 (required for C++17) could be required likely late in 2019 (next > Debian stable release) > > Is that acceptable for Apple? > > Michael > > [1] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy > <https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/DependenciesPolicy> > On Aug 4, 2017, at 13:39, JF Bastien <jfbast...@apple.com> wrote: > > Hello WebKilters, > > Our Chrome-y friends are considering the use of C++14 > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/cxx/ow7hmdDm4yw/eV6KWL2yAQAJ>. > I have to say that C++14 in WebKit has been quite amazing, and we should > consider using C++17: it has many wonderful new things > <https://github.com/tvaneerd/cpp17_in_TTs/blob/master/ALL_IN_ONE.md>, some of > which we already use through WTF’s re-implementation of library features. By > now (table as witness <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support>) > most C++17 languages features are in clang and GCC, and MSVC isn’t doing too > bad either. Language things can just come through WTF if we really want them. > > So how about it? > > JF > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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