Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-23 Thread Girish Ramakrishnan
Hi, On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Jørgen Lind wrote: > I think we should focus on keeping eglfs as small as possible, but > keeping the readability of the code, so that the entry level for "extending" > eglfs will be low. > I think this is the first thing that needs to be discussed :-) We h

Re: [Development] Nominating Jean Gressmann for Approver status

2012-05-23 Thread alex.blasche
Jean had the supporting votes and it has been a couple of weeks now. Therefore, congratulation Jean to becoming an approver. -- Alex > -Original Message- > From: development-bounces+alex.blasche=nokia@qt-project.org > [mailto:development-bounces+alex.blasche=nokia@qt-project.org

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-23 Thread Jørgen Lind
Hi > The initial issue with our current input handling for platforms like eglfs, > which do not handle input on its own, is, that we have input plugins for > mouse/keyboard/touch (evdev), which are seperate from each other. > So one needs to specify "-plugin evdevkeyboard" on the commandline in o

[Development] Qt5 binary installers

2012-05-23 Thread simo.falt
Hi, Finally there is some progress with the bin packaging. There is now jenkins creating desktop installers twice a day, if there is change in git. Currently it detects the git 7 am and pm (GMT +2). First it creates the beta src package (http://origin.releases.qt-project.org/qt5.0-beta-latest/),

Re: [Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-23 Thread laszlo.p.agocs
Hi, Please do not merge the plug-ins. A monolithic "evdev" monster plug-in is not desirable and would certainly not classify as "generic" anymore. The "static device discovery" should check the supported event types from the devices (this needs opening, an ioctl, and some bittesting so might no

[Development] QtSDK4.8 build options

2012-05-23 Thread Zhang DaWei
Hi everyone, I have some questions about QTSDK4.8: 1)Are the libs used in QTSDK4.8 built from qt-everywhere-opensource? 2)if 1) is yes, is there anybody can tell me the total build options for the QTSDK4.8's libs building? Any help will be appreciated! Thanks! -- -??- -- Regards Zhang Da Wei A

Re: [Development] On QML, ownership, QObject-trees and QSharedPointer

2012-05-23 Thread christopher.adams
Hi Rene, I certainly agree that constructive discussion about the QML language and ways that it could be improved are important. You raise a lot of important points, some of which will be addressed in Qt5.0, some of which we still need to consider how to fix, and what priority they should be,

Re: [Development] Bugreports for Playground projects

2012-05-23 Thread Laszlo Papp
> Unfortunately, for all sysadmin-related jobs, we have legal issues that need > to be dealt with, so it's not as simple as starting to do it. I don't know how > to go from here. I would personally like to see as much Open Governance in the Qt Project as possible. This is also relevant for sysadmi

[Development] Removing obsolete overload for QQmlEngine::importPlugin

2012-05-23 Thread matthew.vogt
As per QTBUG-25122 (https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-25122 ), I would like to remove the obsolete overload of the QQmlEngine::importPlugin() function. I am not aware of any remaining users of this overload - if you are still using it and need some time to migrate to using the impr

Re: [Development] Binary incompatible changes to Qt 4.8

2012-05-23 Thread Girish Ramakrishnan
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: > On 23 May 2012 20:03, Girish Ramakrishnan wrote: >> Hi Andreas, >> >> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Andreas Holzammer >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wanted to backport the support for Windows 8 to Qt 4.8, which is >>> already done for

Re: [Development] Mutex future directions

2012-05-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 23.44.57, Carsten Breuer wrote: > Hi Thiago, > > thanks for clearing this :-) > > >> I guess it depends a bit on if you want to yield to another thread or > >> not ;-). Of course: burning cpu time is another way to solve this ;-) > > > > According to the Intel ma

Re: [Development] Mutex future directions

2012-05-23 Thread Carsten Breuer
Hi Thiago, thanks for clearing this :-) >> I guess it depends a bit on if you want to yield to another thread or >> not ;-). Of course: burning cpu time is another way to solve this ;-) > > According to the Intel manual, if you *don't* yield and you don't have the > PAUSE instruction, you may m

Re: [Development] Should we change the default codec of QTextStream to UTF-8?

2012-05-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 13.30.05, 1+1=2 wrote: > In addition, this will improve the unicode handling ability of Qt > tools with using bootstrap. Otherwise, tools such as qmake can not > deal with UTF-8 encoded files. That is irrelevant. qmake operates on Latin1 exclusively because it

Re: [Development] Mutex future directions

2012-05-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 22.52.55, Carsten Breuer wrote: > Hi Bradley, > > >> And I don't think they very much liked the idea of spinning while trying > >> to > >> acquire a lock (consumes power)... at least we have a call to > >> QThread::yieldCurrentThread(), though it would be interes

Re: [Development] Binary incompatible changes to Qt 4.8

2012-05-23 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo
On 23 May 2012 20:03, Girish Ramakrishnan wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Andreas Holzammer > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to backport the support for Windows 8 to Qt 4.8, which is >> already done for Qt5 in https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,22940 >> With this c

Re: [Development] Current qt5 version from git does not compile

2012-05-23 Thread Brett Stottlemyer
Hi all, I'm having a similar issue, but a bit farther off the beaten path. I'm on VS2008, but trying to cross compile for Wince. I can get the compile to finish after applying a number of patches and hacks, but only if I manually add QtV8 to the include and lib paths for a bunch of qtdecla

Re: [Development] Mutex future directions

2012-05-23 Thread Carsten Breuer
Hi Bradley, >> And I don't think they very much liked the idea of spinning while trying to >> acquire a lock (consumes power)... at least we have a call to >> QThread::yieldCurrentThread(), though it would be interesting to see what >> happens if we replace it with a PAUSE instruction. > Have y

[Development] Should we change the default codec of QTextStream to UTF-8?

2012-05-23 Thread 1+1=2
Hi all, It might be a bit late for 5.0. But Qt 5 have started to enforce that source code file must be UTF-8. So perhaps it make sense to change the default codec of QTextStream to UTF-8. This won't break many things, as the old behavior can be obtained by calling QTextStream::setCodec(). I have

[Development] Fixing input for eglfs and friends

2012-05-23 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hi, as we are working on better support of embedded devices in Qt, we also are tapping into the input handling. The initial issue with our current input handling for platforms like eglfs, which do not handle input on its own, is, that we have input plugins for mouse/keyboard/touch (evdev), whi

Re: [Development] Binary incompatible changes to Qt 4.8

2012-05-23 Thread Girish Ramakrishnan
Hi Andreas, On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Andreas Holzammer wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to backport the support for Windows 8 to Qt 4.8, which is > already done for Qt5 in https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,22940 > With this change a symbol is added and therefore binary compatibility is

[Development] Binary incompatible changes to Qt 4.8

2012-05-23 Thread Andreas Holzammer
Hi, I wanted to backport the support for Windows 8 to Qt 4.8, which is already done for Qt5 in https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,22940 With this change a symbol is added and therefore binary compatibility is broken. I know i cannot do that for Qt 4.8, so my question if we should do this an

Re: [Development] On QML, ownership, QObject-trees and QSharedPointer

2012-05-23 Thread Atlant Schmidt
All: > W00t should have a backlog which covers the conversation, > if it was done on our public channels :-) If only Pierre de Fermat had had that feature! Atlant -Original Message- From: development-bounces+aschmidt=dekaresearch@qt-project.org [mailto:dev

Re: [Development] On QML, ownership, QObject-trees and QSharedPointer

2012-05-23 Thread marius.storm-olsen
W00t should have a backlog which covers the conversation, if it was done on our public channels :-) -- Sent from my Nokia N9On 5/23/12 13:44 ext Thiago Macieira wrote: On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 14.16.12, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 05/23/2012 01:25 PM, Rene Jensen wrote: > > Question:

Re: [Development] On QML, ownership, QObject-trees and QSharedPointer

2012-05-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 14.16.12, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 05/23/2012 01:25 PM, Rene Jensen wrote: > > Question: How can we expose objects governed by QSharedPointer to QML > > safely? I can guarantee the lifecycle beyond the life of my > > QDeclarativeEngine. > > As neither of us k

Re: [Development] On QML, ownership, QObject-trees and QSharedPointer

2012-05-23 Thread Alberto Mardegan
Hi Rene, I don't have real answers for your questions, but just a piece of advice: KISS. On 05/23/2012 01:25 PM, Rene Jensen wrote: > Question: How can we expose objects governed by QSharedPointer to QML > safely? I *can* guarantee the lifecycle beyond the life of my > QDeclarativeEngine. As ne

[Development] On QML, ownership, QObject-trees and QSharedPointer

2012-05-23 Thread Rene Jensen
Hello qtpies. Disclaimer 1: I have read incessantly in the Quick documents, searched the net and also extensively used QML. Please don't LMGTFY or RTFM me instinctively ;-) Disclaimer 2: I started a topic at QtCentre (http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/49059-QSharedPointer-QWeakPointer-in-QML), hopin

Re: [Development] Nominating Peter Varga for approver status

2012-05-23 Thread Kent Hansen
Hi, Den 23. mai 2012 09:02, skrev ext Simon Hausmann: > Hi, > > I would like to nominate Peter for approver status. > > As part of the team in the University of Szeged he has completed the past few > rebases of V8 in the qtjsbackend module, a task that is anything but easy, > with a fast moving up

Re: [Development] Mutex future directions

2012-05-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 04.54.11, bradley.hug...@nokia.com wrote: > On May 22, 2012, at 11:01 AM, ext Thiago Macieira wrote: > > And I don't think they very much liked the idea of spinning while trying > > to > > acquire a lock (consumes power)... at least we have a call to > > QThread:

Re: [Development] Nominating Peter Varga for approver status

2012-05-23 Thread Jedrzej Nowacki
On Wednesday 23. May 2012 09.02.00 ext Simon Hausmann wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to nominate Peter for approver status. > > As part of the team in the University of Szeged he has completed the past > few rebases of V8 in the qtjsbackend module, a task that is anything but > easy, with a fast m

[Development] Nominating Peter Varga for approver status

2012-05-23 Thread Simon Hausmann
Hi, I would like to nominate Peter for approver status. As part of the team in the University of Szeged he has completed the past few rebases of V8 in the qtjsbackend module, a task that is anything but easy, with a fast moving upstream and a very complex patch set on our side. Based on his co