[Dune-devel] Replace Dune C++11 by plain C++11

Martin Nolte nolte at mathematik.uni-freiburg.de
Thu Mar 13 08:02:04 CET 2014


No, that is perfectly possible. But as far as I know, deprecating a using 
directive is not possible.

Best,

Martin

On 03/12/2014 09:33 PM, Oliver Sander wrote:
>>
>> As to deprecating the imports: I don't think you can easily do that.
>
> I was thinking to deprecate the entire files with a #warning.  Did I miss something?
> --
> Oliver
>
> Moreover, we are heading for 3.0, which "might contain non-backward compatible changes". IMHO we should just drop them (if so
>> desired).
>>
>> Moving the compatiblity headers does not sound like a good idea to me, here. We would need to deprecate the old ones anyway.
>>
>> As to using std:: in the core modules: From my point of view, the import serves the purpose to easily use a fallback implementation in case the std:: variant is buggy (e.g., std::array on xlc).
>> However, I agree that there is no need to support such compilers and a simple sed-command (combined with a find) will replace all std::array by Dune::array (or whatever name I would like to use).
>>
>> Personally, I do (maybe no longer) have an opinion on the matter. If the majority of interesed people think it is simpler to use std::array instead of the import Dune::array, then so be it.
>>
>> But: I do dislike reverting Christoph's work just for an extremely tiny bit of potential compatiblity (not to say out of pure spite). Therefore, I do have one request: Can we please either vote on the
>> matter or allow Christoph to drop the imports without any further discussion?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On 03/12/2014 11:07 AM, Oliver Sander wrote:
>>> Am 12.03.2014 11:04, schrieb Christian Engwer:
>>>> Hi Oli,
>>>>
>>>> I just checked again.
>>>>
>>>> a) with respect to static_Assert I was wrong and we actually decided
>>>>      to drop dune_static_assert completely.
>>>> b) if we follow you suggestion
>>>>      > We cannot drop the namespace imports without deprecating them first.
>>>>      > But we can start using the std:: versions explicitly inside the
>>>>      > core modules, which is what Christoph did, IIRC.
>>>>      we basically revert the decision to have namespace import to ease the
>>>>      use of unsupported compilers. Which is something, where I don't have a
>>>>      strong opinion, besides we should stick to what we decided until we
>>>>      decided differently.
>>>
>>> I think it is a little bizarre to officially state a list of supported
>>> compilers, and then jump through loops to (kind-of) support the unsupported
>>> ones, too.  But I don't have a strong opinion on this, either.
>>> --
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ciao
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>
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