[Bf-committers] Using C++11 features in Blender source code?

[Aurel W.]

Hi,

from a personal experience, mixing in new C++11 features into
existing, old C++ code is not really a problem. The benefits you gain
are way more important than the tiny bits of inconsistency you
encounter during this process.

Using modern C++, anything that goes, should be highly encouraged. Not
just some features, full C++11 and upcoming standards, boost,...
Someone who uses bad, old style C++/C these days is basically doomed.

Compiler support for C++11 is very good at this point, with MSVC still
lacking a little bit behind, but not significantly. I would highly
recommend switching to the latest MSVC version.

aurel

On 27 March 2013 20:58, Mitchell Stokes <mogurijin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Manuel,
>> I need to re-visit your post to read it more through, but interesting
>> initiative. For some of your projects you may want to drop on irc
>> #bgecoders (or even #blendercoders) channel to bounce ideas before getting
>> down to code. Mainly to smooth out future merges.
>>
>> Now to your topic:
>> Could you elaborate on the downsides of using C++11? (backward
>> incompatibility? Lack of compilers? )
>> And the problems of mixing it up with the existent C++ code.
>>
>> Also BGE shouldn't have C code. As far as I can think of, the only part in
>> C are the dependencies coming from Blender or code for the embedded BGE.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dalai
>> On Mar 27, 2013 7:52 AM, "Manuel Bellersen" <bellersenm at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hey there!
>> >
>> > I just got in contact with coding Blender, especially the internal game
>> > engine.
>> > (Here is my personal branch https://bitbucket.org/Urfoex/blender/
>> > and a little write-up:
>> >
>> http://urfoex.blogspot.com/2013/03/bge-qt5-coding-blender-game-engine.html
>> )
>> >
>> > I like to code using the new features of C++11.
>> > But currently Blender isn't using C++11 anywhere.
>> > (I think it is kind of funny because it uses Python 3.3 that came out
>> > 29.09.2012
>> > but doesn't use C++11 which showed up already a year earlier on
>> > 12.08.2011.)
>> >
>> > So the question is:
>> > Can I contribute code written using C++11 features?
>> > Or am I forced to do the C & C++ mix I found (and fear)?
>> >
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Manuel Bellersen
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> The problem is compiler support. Our official Windows compiler is MSVC 2008
> (VC9), which only has limited C++11 support via an optional extension pack.
> Can you list off which C++11 features you specifically want to use?
>
> --Mitchell
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