Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-09 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:46:27PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: - If we decide to do the change in Qt5, it will be *without* soname bump. Yes, I know many of you will think of this as **ugly**, but so far means 3 binNMUs per arch. Now if this is not acceptable, then no

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double on arm*. We have the option to keep some archs in float by passing a

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thursday 07 November 2013 18:18:18 you wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double on arm*. We have the

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thursday 07 November 2013 18:55:31 Loïc Minier wrote: On Thu, Nov 07, 2013, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: - We don't know yet what other distros are going to do. IMO we shouldn't have distro-specific patching for this kind of stuff; it seems to commonly impact apps (which

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-05 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Note: readding p-k-t@ and debian-ports@... On Tuesday 05 November 2013 19:22:30 peter green wrote: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: I really don't understand where Canonical gets in here. If qreal is float on armhf and key software fails in that configuration then canonical have

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-04 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: [snip] We have the option to keep some archs in float by passing a compilation parameter. I've done so for armel and sh4, so only armhf will switch to double. Just for the record, I din't considered the switch

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-04 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:29:05 -0300 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double on arm*. We have the option to keep some

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-04 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Monday 04 November 2013 17:57:35 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Hello, Simple question: what is the reason for the change? This is all I know: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,67001 Also, I seem to remember Thiago discussing about this on qt-interest but I don't have time to

Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double on arm*. We have the option to keep some archs in float by passing a compilation parameter. I've done so for armel and sh4, so only armhf will

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double on arm*. I forgot to mention: please keep pkg-kde-talk at

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread peter green
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Any feedback will be kindly appreciated. I've always thought there is something fundamentally wrong. What is qreal supposed to be used for? If it's supposed to be used for things where float would be adequate then shouldn't it be float on all