Re: [Development] BC/SC in patch releases (particularly enum additions)

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Wicking via Development
On 23 Aug 2023, at 15:39, Marc Mutz via Development wrote: Hi, I cannot find Eddy's email in between, In case you're still looking for it: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2023-August/044348.html //! Paul -- Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org

Re: [Development] BC/SC in patch releases (particularly enum additions)

2023-08-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 23 August 2023 06:39:32 PDT Marc Mutz via Development wrote: > I cannot resist noting that the third item, in particular, is a problem > for QOperatingSystemVersion, which, despite years of yours truly's > hammering of that particular nail, is still exported as a > non-polymorphic

Re: [Development] BC/SC in patch releases (particularly enum additions)

2023-08-23 Thread Volker Hilsheimer via Development
> On 23 Aug 2023, at 15:09, Edward Welbourne via Development > wrote: > > Lars Knoll (23 August 2023 13:32) wrote >> We have been adding new enum values in certain cases. The operating >> system versions needing to be amended to support a new version of >> macOS is one example. That has

Re: [Development] BC/SC in patch releases (particularly enum additions)

2023-08-23 Thread Marc Mutz via Development
Hi, I cannot find Eddy's email in between, but from what I can gleam from Lars' quoting of it, I'd be fine with adding enum values in patch releaes, provided that - they're documented (with \since x.y._z_ for each x.y.z they were new in (hypotheically, 6.5.3, 6.6.1, 6.7), and in

Re: [Development] BC/SC in patch releases (particularly enum additions)

2023-08-23 Thread Edward Welbourne via Development
Lars Knoll (23 August 2023 13:32) wrote > We have been adding new enum values in certain cases. The operating > system versions needing to be amended to support a new version of > macOS is one example. That has happened a couple of times within LTS > releases as far as I remember. > > We’ve also

Re: [Development] BC/SC in patch releases (particularly enum additions)

2023-08-23 Thread Lars Knoll via Development
> On 23 Aug 2023, at 11:48, Edward Welbourne via Development > wrote: > > On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:27:09 PDT Marc Mutz via Development wrote: I think we should decide what we mean by forward BC and SC and describe it in https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-Version-Compatibility more

Re: [Development] BC/SC in patch releases (particularly enum additions)

2023-08-23 Thread Edward Welbourne via Development
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:27:09 PDT Marc Mutz via Development wrote: >>> I think we should decide what we mean by forward BC and SC and >>> describe it in https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-Version-Compatibility more >>> precisely. On 23.08.23 04:48, Thiago Macieira wrote: >> I thought the rule was "no