Re: Removing disabling of exceptions/properties/signal-handlers

[Daniel Elstner <daniel kitta googlemail com>]

Am Mittwoch, den 30.12.2009, 09:51 +0100 schrieb Murray Cumming:

> I doubt that we can remove the no-exceptions build because disabling
> exceptions is still very popular, mostly out of habit, and is often
> enforced by awkward hand-built build systems.

But it is the single most important bit, by far.  If you have to cater
for both cases, with and without exceptions, you may as well not offer
exceptions in the first place.  It leads to a fundamentally different
style of programming.

In other words, a gtkmm without exceptions is not the same toolkit
anymore.

Also note that we already rely on RTTI.

> Note that Qt still doesn't use exceptions, other than in its
> QtXmlPatterns xml parser module.

--Daniel