[Development] Contributing to Qt session at Qt World Summit

2019-11-06 Thread Tuukka Turunen
Hi, Yesterday morning at the Qt World Summit we had a session about contributing to Qt. I was really happy to see over 80 people joining the session at 8 am before the second day keynotes (and after a great party the previous evening). We actually run out of chairs in the room we had booked

Re: [Development] Porting QT to new OS

2019-11-06 Thread Lorn Potter
On 7/11/19 3:42 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:41:10 PST martin ribelotta wrote: This question is in the air time to time but the information is very disperse and not so convincent for me. Actually in my understand, Qt need: 1) POSIX compliant base (pthreads?

Re: [Development] Porting QT to new OS

2019-11-06 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:41:10 PST martin ribelotta wrote: > This question is in the air time to time but the information is very > disperse and not so convincent for me. > > Actually in my understand, Qt need: > > 1) POSIX compliant base (pthreads? mmap? fork?) > > I can disable parts

[Development] Porting QT to new OS

2019-11-06 Thread martin ribelotta
Hi guys, I'm evaluate, for a client, the cost of port Qt to a bare metal RTOS with minimal (realy minimal) requirements like freeRTOS, mbedos etc (no mmu, no mmap, no filesystem, etc) What is the minimal requirement to run Qt in a really minimal platform? (for now, qt in my words is understand as

Re: [Development] Two-digit dates: what century should we use ?

2019-11-06 Thread André Pönitz
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 12:38:48PM +, Edward Welbourne wrote: > want. Sample options: > * keep 1900-1999, discourage use of ShortFormat; > * rolling window based on currentDate(), as I described earlier; > * we update startYear's default with each major release of Qt. First option seems to

Re: [Development] Two-digit dates: what century should we use ?

2019-11-06 Thread André Somers
Hi, On 05-11-19 14:44, Edward Welbourne wrote: Hi all, Prompted by [0], I'm looking at what century to use for years, when the text being read is expected to be in a "short format" that only includes two digits. * [0] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74323 tl;dr - how do folk feel about

Re: [Development] Two-digit dates: what century should we use ?

2019-11-06 Thread Eirik Aavitsland
On 11/6/19 1:38 PM, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > Anyone want to make the case for keeping 1900--1999 as default ? Yup, I'll bite, for the following reasons: 1) The downside of changing it is certain: breaking existing apps. In particular, breaking the old code dealing with old data, which is

Re: [Development] Two-digit dates: what century should we use ?

2019-11-06 Thread Edward Welbourne
Eike Ziller (6 November 2019 09:45) > It sounds to me like any automatically chosen base for 2-digit years > will be wrong depending on use case. You (among several others) make a compelling case. > If you want to make it easier for people to implement their > interpretation of 2-digit years,

Re: [Development] Two-digit dates: what century should we use ?

2019-11-06 Thread NIkolai Marchenko
> If you want to make it easier for people to implement their interpretation of 2-digit years, you could add an (optional) explicit window to the QDate::fromString API? that would actually be very appreciated On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:46 AM Eike Ziller wrote: > It sounds to me like any

Re: [Development] Two-digit dates: what century should we use ?

2019-11-06 Thread Eike Ziller
It sounds to me like any automatically chosen base for 2-digit years will be wrong depending on use case. For some applications, only the past is relevant. For some applications, dates N years into the future are relevant. If we choose any N for a window, that can be wrong for some application.

Re: [Development] Two-digit dates: what century should we use ?

2019-11-06 Thread Elvis Stansvik
Den tis 5 nov. 2019 15:48Kari Oikarinen skrev: > > > On 5.11.2019 15.44, Edward Welbourne wrote:> Hi all, > > > > Prompted by [0], I'm looking at what century to use for years, when the > > text being read is expected to be in a "short format" that only includes > > two digits. > > * [0]