[cmake-developers] Can we please require TR1 to build CMake?

[Brad King]

On 01/09/2017 05:46 AM, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
> start using TR1/C++11 library features, namely std::function, std::bind,
> std::placeholders, std::shared_ptr, std::make_shared.

I'd love to be able to start using those too, but last time I checked
they are not supported everywhere CMake builds, at least in the standard
libraries (see below).

> AIX-7.1_IBM-12.1 reports that __IBMCPP_TR1__ must be defined to use TR1.

Hopefully, but that would take some investigation.

> Xcode 2.1 and 3.2 fail. These builds are not marked as "expected".

I'd be okay with dropping these.

> This leaves HP-UX.11iv2.ia64-aCC and Solaris-10-8.11_Oracle-12.3.

IIUC the Oracle compiler supports C++11 when told to use the proper
stdlib.  However, I don't think there is a solution on HP-UX with its
standard library.

> * Explicitly require SP1 for Visual Studio 2008.

Okay.  For hosting CMake's own build we could even consider requiring
VS 2010.  One blocker for that on Kitware's side is updating our
dashboard machines as needed to be able to host CMake builds even if
testing generators for older versions.  I'm not sure when I'll have
time to do that.

> * Disallow compiling in C++98 mode if compiler is capable of C++11.

Okay.

> * Require TR1 by all means. This may require setting up Boost.TR1
>   on a very small number of exotic platforms.

IIRC there is a tool to extract a subset of boost.  Please see how
small it can get.  We can even remove the config headers for the
platforms we don't need to use it, perhaps manually.

Thanks,
-Brad