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[Raphael Grimm <>]

Hi,

it is the second reason.
Though i can understand why libraries tend to stick to c++03 to prevent 
breaking stuff, I do not know how many people still use a compiler 
without c++11 support.
This also stops some developers (e.g. me) to participate working on a 
library since all features have to be working for old c++ standards and 
you have to be careful not to break for these old versions.

Furthermore the library can't benefit from new features (or has to add a 
lot of #if ).
This makes the code harder to read and understand.

Since this library has breaking changes in new versions, I see no 
problem in requiring a slightly newer c++ standard (c++11 is around 7 
years old).

Best Regards,

Raphael


On 06.06.2018 17:29, Andreas Fabri wrote:
> Hi Raphael,
>
> I was also wondering if you were worried that we might advance too quickly
> because for whatever reason you are bound to an old compiler.
>
> Or if you find us too slow by not picking up lambdas, auto,....
>
> Best,
>
> Andreas
>
>
> On 6/6/2018 10:18 AM, Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory) wrote:
> > Note that this does not mean that the code is not working
> > with c++11 nor c++17. We simply offer support for old compilers.
> > At some point we'll probably move the minimal version to c++11
> > but nothing has been decided yet.
> >
> > Sebastien.
> >
> > On 06/05/2018 04:10 PM, Raphael Grimm wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > according to "Documentation/doc/Documentation/Preliminaries.txt" the 
> > > standard used in CGAL is c++03.
> > > Is there a plan of moving to c++11 or higher as a required minimal 
> > > function?
> > >
> > > Best regards.
> > >
> > > Raphael
>
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> Editor, The CGAL Project
>
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