[Geany-Devel] Lets move to C99

[Nick Treleaven]

On 16/08/2013 10:25, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 13-08-16 01:28 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>> Am 2013-08-16 10:21, schrieb Matthew Brush:
>>> On 13-08-16 01:18 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>>>> Am 2013-08-16 08:36, schrieb Lex Trotman:
>>>>> In general I don't see any point in keeping compatibility with a
>>>>> standard
>>>>> as old as C89, what target (that we support) still needs that?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> IIRC this was due to on Solaris system and others C99 was not fully
>>>> supported. Honestly I have no clue what's the current status at this as
>>>> with upgrading Gtk-dependency in past we might have lost the
>>>> C89-compat.
>>>> already.
>>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK we and GTK+ still conform to strict C89 including recent GTK+3
>>> updates, but I think C99 support in GCC (our main targeted compiler)
>>> is quite robust for a long time on all targets where Geany is used
>>> (presumably).
>>
>> There were some real old plattforms to keep on supporting running a gcc
>> 2.9x ... IIRC Solaris 9.
>>
>> We have to check the *x-world beside of Linux I think here.
>>
>
> IMO, if a platform can't support compiling C99 code using any type of
> pre-historic GCC that supports it, then its package maintainers deserve
> to (and likely do already) use cross-compilation and it's users won't
> care either way.
>
> P.S. I'm not a package maintainer for pre-historic distro, so please
> flame me if I pissed you off.

Perhaps we could try asking if they still need ANSI-C on geany-users and 
maybe on the website news too.