Gtkmm Begins Preparing For GTK4, Now Uses C++14

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gtkmm Begins Preparing For GTK4, Now Uses C++14

Gtkmm, the project providing the de facto C++ interface for GTK+, is preparing for the GTK+ 4.0 era...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GTKMM-Starts-For-GTK4

[Delgarde]

Makes sense. If you're going to be breaking API compatibility anyway, you might as well target the latest C++ standard. Even if it's not available everywhere today, it should be by the time Gtkmm4 comes out, and people have ported their code to it.

[Kemosabe]

Makes sense. If you're going to be breaking API compatibility anyway, you might as well target the latest C++ standard. Even if it's not available everywhere today, it should be by the time Gtkmm4 comes out, and people have ported their code to it.

So where would gtk4 be available but not c++14?

[Guest]

So where would gtk4 be available but not c++14?

On a system running an older compiler maybe. Gtk4 is C (no new standard revision is like half a decade).