[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Say Yes to C++ style comments

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Greg Wooledge <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> This is precisely the same line of reasoning that led to the World Wide
> Web being in the sorry state that it's in today.  "Why support old
> browsers -- 95% are using MSIE or Netscape 4.x!"
> 

The old browsers do not render CSS very well. It's actually a good thing to
move from the old netscape tags and newer IE stuff, to standards compliant
stuff like Mozilla and Opera.

> We have standards for a VERY good reason.  The C standards are various
> ISO documents that we refer to as C89, C99, etc.

I agree. I think you are misrepresenting my position. Read my email in context.

> For Freeciv 1.x, let's stick to standard C, please.  Personally I'd
> vote for C89, since it's by far the most commonly implemented version
> of the language today.  But I could at least understand a switch to C99.
> A switch to gcc-specific extensions would be a bad move.


I'm not suggesting that. I only wanted to allow // comments. That's been a part
of the C99 standard for some time. There was no mention of any gcc extensions.
I believe that Freeciv should not be restricted to old compilers. We should
instead be assuming that at least C99 standard is implemented(Yes I know gcc
has
not fully implemented the standard). Like it or not, gcc is the most important
compiler to all free software projects. That's why I suggest supporting old
versions of gcc but not compilers like Sun's cc.

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