On 2017-03-14 13:33, André Pönitz wrote: > In general, I am not overly sold on ABI compatibility promises. I personally > could live without and find SC of more practical value. The most important > "feature" of ABI compatibility guarantee for me is that it limits people from > doing overly excessive source-incompatible changes.
Distros are likely to care; a Qt BC break requires a mass rebuild of everything that uses Qt (which translates into lots of users needing to update lots of packages when Qt changes). Distros may refuse to update Qt within a distro release as a result, which means users are stuck with older Qt for longer. All that more or less already applies to the standard library however (probably most distros don't accept a standard library BC break without a mass rebuild anyway), so Qt insulating against BC breaks in the standard library is maybe less necessary. -- Matthew _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
