On 25/06/2013 05:16, Tom Lane wrote:
It might be time to reconsider whether we should move the baseline portability requirement up to C99.
My understanding was that you picked up a lot of users when the Win32 port became useful. While you can build with msys, I would think that leaving Microsoft's tooling behind would be a mistake, and as far as I am aware they have said that they are supporting C++11 but not bothering with C99.
I'm really not in favor of moving to C++ though, as the portability-vs-usefulness tradeoffs seem pretty unattractive there.
As a long-time C++ programmer I don't see what the problem would be beyond (some) existing contributors being wary of the unknown. Its not as if any platform developed enough to be a sane db server has not got a decent C++ compiler or two. Portability is only really a problem with a subset of new C++11 features.
