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Contributions => Programming => Topic started by: winterheart on January 11, 2016, 09:01:07 am

Title: Major update of yaml-cpp
Post by: winterheart on January 11, 2016, 09:01:07 am

Today developer of yaml-cpp merged changes that significantly changed working with library (https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/commit/24fa1b33805c9a91df0f32c46c28e314dd7ad96f). Since then yaml-cpp not require anymore boost library, but require C++11 features. So, linking openxcom with future versions of yaml-cpp will require C++11 compiler too.

Title: Re: Major update of yaml-cpp
Post by: winterheart on January 11, 2016, 09:51:17 am

0.5.3 is last release that not require C++11 (https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp/releases/tag/release-0.5.3)

Title: Re: Major update of yaml-cpp
Post by: SupSuper on January 12, 2016, 01:05:48 am

I doubt it will pose an issue, as most people will use yaml-cpp pre-packaged.

Good to see a new yaml-cpp release though. :)

Title: Re: Major update of yaml-cpp
Post by: hellrazor on January 12, 2016, 01:09:56 pm

Quote from: SupSuper on January 12, 2016, 01:05:48 am

I doubt it will pose an issue, as most people will use yaml-cpp pre-packaged.

Good to see a new yaml-cpp release though. :)

Depends. That is certainly true for Windows users.
Compiling a git build maybe a issue, eventually on Linux.

Title: Re: Major update of yaml-cpp
Post by: yrizoud on January 12, 2016, 04:04:49 pm

? Sorry if I missed something obvious, but where do you find a pre-packaged library ? ( x86 Windows mingw)

Title: Re: Major update of yaml-cpp
Post by: SupSuper on January 14, 2016, 10:28:39 pm

Either you're building it yourself, and then you probably already have a compiler that supports C+11, or you're not, and you'll just have to wait for it to make its way to your favorite package manager / dependencies package.

To clarify, compilers have supported C++11 for a long long while, we only avoid it in OpenXcom because we don't wanna upset the old codebase. :P This does not stop you from using a newer compiler with OpenXcom.

Title: Re: Major update of yaml-cpp
Post by: Yankes on January 14, 2016, 10:54:23 pm

And nobody can stop you when you want use C++11 it in your branch, like me :) (but you need abandon hopes of pushing something back to master branch)

Title: Re: Major update of yaml-cpp
Post by: yrizoud on January 15, 2016, 01:48:27 am

Quote from: SupSuper on January 14, 2016, 10:28:39 pm

Either you're building it yourself, and then you probably already have a compiler that supports C+11, or you're not, and you'll just have to wait for it to make its way to your favorite package manager / dependencies package.

Oh I'm not worried about the compiler's support. But since mingw-gcc is not supported by the yaml devs, there's no guarantee that their newer code keeps compiling on it.
Whenever a library proposes a pre-built package, I use it. Otherwise I have to compile it, and my current toolchain can compile 17 libraries this way (6 of them are required for compiling OpenXcom)
I'm very wary of upgrading, because each time I do, one of the older libraries stops compiling...

In case anybody needs it in the future, I attach here the yaml-cpp-0.5.1 which I use for OpenXcom.