Re: A word about C++11 (my humble opinion)

[Olaf Till]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:46:44AM -0700, Rik wrote:
> ...
> I think it is important to differentiate between Octave core and packages
> maintained at Octave Forge.  The stable version of core Octave should still
> be able to be compiled on 12.04.  The policies of any particular Octave
> Forge package, however, are set by the package maintainer.  If they want to
> require something different they can.

Well, they can't quite do what they want, of course ... As for the
parallel package, constructor delegation made some new feature cleaner
to implement. And since Octave development branch requires c++11, it
will be required by the next major Octave release anyway -- so if a
package requires c++11 already now, it only shifts the issue for a
short span of time.

Olaf

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