svn commit: r383466 - in head/x11-toolkits/wxgtk30: . files

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 11 08:44:59 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:15:28PM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> > On the other hand, many of these dependent ports actually do not require
> > dreaded c++11 (or c++0x) support.  It would be very unfortunate to force
> > it on all of them just because wxgtk30 guys do not know how to develop
> > software [1].  Can we bring wxgtk30 back to sanity, please?
> > 
> > [1] Forcing c++11 on a popular GUI toolkit in 2015 is bad beyond evil.
> 
> It turns out that wxgtk is really tied to c++11: one of my ports fail with
> 
> /usr/local/include/wx-3.0/wx/strvararg.h:350:13: error: 'is_enum' in namespace 'std' does not name a type
>      typedef std::is_enum<T> is_enum;
> 
> is_enum is c++11 thing: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/is_enum

Unbelievable stupidity.  If I'd care about wx enough, I'd tried getting it
back on a sane ground of c++03, luckily I don't use this crap at all.

./danfe


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