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On 03/01/2017 08:51, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> On 01/02/2017 10:34 PM, Justin <jlec> wrote: |
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>> Seems to be very consistent in usage. |
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> But I'm not convinced it is a correct approach to have use flag changing |
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> this. First thing that springs to mind is if introducing something like |
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> that it should be done consistently across Gentoo, so a GLEP. But |
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> presumably a lot of packages are already built using C++11 without a use |
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> flag given Qt5.7 requiring it etc. |
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> If using C++11 enables different features the feature should be the use |
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> flag rather than C++11. Couldn't this just be determined using Autotools |
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> etc? What is the gain of the use flag? Immediately it sounds like it |
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> adds complexity without much gain. |
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I tried to find some example usages from upstream. Two things I found |
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* Most upstreams dropped the flag in recent versions |
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* If present, it is used to append -std=c++11 |
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Probably we should keep it local and wait until it is gone everywhere |
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upstream. |
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Justin |
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