[gmx-developers] C++ policy for master

[Berk Hess]

On 10/18/2010 10:22 AM, Roland Schulz wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Berk Hess <hess at cbr.su.se
> <mailto:hess at cbr.su.se>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     My suggestion would be to switch to C++ immediately after we
>     release 4.5.2.
>     4.5.2 should be released asap, somewhere this week.
>
> OK 
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>     But I thought we decided not to use io streams.
>
> During the last developer meeting? Does a summary of that meeting
> existing?
>
> What is the reason for not using io streams?
>
> Roland
>
I thought you were cc'ed on the C++ discussion, but maybe not.
The C++ coding standard we roughly decided on are on the wiki:
http://www.gromacs.org/index.php?title=Developer_Zone/Programming_Guide/Allowed_C%2b%2b_Features

Berk

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>     Berk
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>     On 10/18/2010 06:26 AM, Roland Schulz wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     what the policy regarding C++ in master? Is it already permitted? 
>>
>>     I'm asking, because I would like to merge my history function
>>     branch into master. Since I need to record all stdin I had to
>>     write gmx wrappers for all stdin reading functions. My solution
>>     for those wrappers is not very clean. Instead of cleaning up
>>     those wrapper, it would be much easier to record all stdin if all
>>     tools would read from std::cin (instead of scanf, getc, ..). Thus
>>     I would like to change that. Would that change be OK already now
>>     or very soon?
>>
>>     Roland
>>
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