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Subject: Re: Can TagLib2.0 require C++11 or Boost?
From: "Stephen F. Booth" <me () sbooth ! org>
Date: 2013-11-18 13:19:51
Message-ID: 379C8D911E0E4A829CFAC6B83501B643 () sbooth ! org
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I understand the sentiment about not wanting to require boost as an external \
dependency but I think that requiring C++11 would not be a bad thing. While this \
would introduce a new requirements for TagLib2, I don't consider this an external \
dependency in the sense of additional software required to build the library. Anyone \
compiling for a recent MacOS or iOS can use clang which has good support for C++11 \
and libc++. I'm not very familiar with Windows but from a cursory examination it \
seems that MS Visual Studio has some C++11 support back to version 2010 and MingW \
with gcc 4.8 has it all. Any modern linux distro would also support clang or gcc. \
TagLib already requires a working version of the C++ standard library and I think it \
would be worth investigating whether replacing List, Map, RefCounter, etc. with their \
std:: counterparts would be worthwhile. It's possible that this would be a large \
change to the existing codebase without a corresponding payoff but for version 2.0 I \
think it's at least worth considering.
Stephen
On Monday, November 18, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Tsuda Kageyu wrote:
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> Thank you for your replies.
>
> I decided not to make changes that entails mandatory external
> dependencies. It's certainly a bad thing as some of you says.
>
> Kageyu.
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<div>I understand the sentiment about not wanting to require boost as \
an external dependency but I think that requiring C++11 would not be a bad thing. \
While this would introduce a new requirements for TagLib2, I don't consider \
this an external dependency in the sense of additional software required to build the \
library. Anyone compiling for a recent MacOS or iOS can use clang which has \
good support for C++11 and libc++. I'm not very familiar with Windows but from \
a cursory examination it seems that MS Visual Studio has some C++11 support back to \
version 2010 and MingW with gcc 4.8 has it all. Any modern linux distro would \
also support clang or gcc. TagLib already requires a working version of the C++ \
standard library and I think it would be worth investigating whether replacing List, \
Map, RefCounter, etc. with their std:: counterparts would be worthwhile. It's \
possible that this would be a large change to the existing codebase without a \
corresponding payoff but for version 2.0 I think it's at least worth \
considering.</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen</div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Monday, November 18, 2013 at 12:17 AM, \
Tsuda Kageyu wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your replies. \
</div><div><br></div><div>I decided not to make changes that entails mandatory \
external </div><div>dependencies. It's certainly a bad thing as some of you \
says.</div><div><br></div><div>Kageyu.</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>taglib-devel \
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