On Tuesday 18 June 2024 07:53:32 GMT-7 Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
wrote:
> I think this is now effectively a separate thread of discussion, since
> these deprecations create source incompatibilities, not binary
> incompatibilities.
>
> Should we discuss it at the QtCS in a couple of slots?
Hi,
On 18/06/2024 10:15, Alex Blasche via Development wrote:
Our biggest issue is the adoption of Qt by users moving from one major
release to the next. The deprecations start to become a liability and
while they keep SC compatibility in check for Qt 6 they become a serious
concern for any ado
>From: Development on behalf of apoenitz
>
>Sent: Friday, 14 June 2024 19:32
>There are by now ~240 QT_DEPRECATED_VERSION_X_6_* in qtbase alone. Fixing them
>today involves touching thousands line of code in my code base(s). Very few of
>them are truly, c
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 09:55:37AM +0200, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 25/05/2024 13:03, apoenitz wrote:
> > As an open source application developer I mostly care about SC, as SC
> > breakages
> > means actual work for/me/.
>
> To better understand: when you talk about SC, are you refer
On Thursday 30 May 2024 15:56:26 CEST Volker Hilsheimer via Development wrote:
> My larger concern is that for patch releases, we have no processes to avoid
> that we end up adding poor APIs. We don’t do a header review, and we don’t
> have a whatsnew documentation file. The changelog should be eno
> On 29 May 2024, at 05:30, Kevin Kofler via Development
> wrote:
>
> Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote:
>> 2) We stop guaranteeing forward binary compatibility within the same
>> minor version.
>>
>> In other words, code compiled against Qt X.Y.Z may or may not work if at
>> runtime Qt X
On Wednesday 29 May 2024 16:54:33 GMT-3 Narolewski Jakub wrote:
> Sorry for chiming in uninvited but isn't this how the Qt Online Installer
> thingy works?
Very carefully.
It's built on a reasonably old Linux distribution, the oldest of all of them
that are still supported. It also builds with a
Sorry for chiming in uninvited but isn't this how the Qt Online Installer
thingy works?
I know that with it I can install some prebuilt Qt distribution on my Linux
- openSUSE Tumbleweed - and I kinda always assumed that the actual build
host could be a different distro.
I never really gave it much
On Wednesday 29 May 2024 00:30:12 GMT-3 Kevin Kofler via Development wrote:
> There is, however, one use case you are overlooking, and that is binaries
> compiled on one distribution and run on another.
That's not supported at all and that has nothing to do with Qt. Unless the two
distributions a
Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote:
> 2) We stop guaranteeing forward binary compatibility within the same
> minor version.
>
> In other words, code compiled against Qt X.Y.Z may or may not work if at
> runtime Qt X.Y.W is used, with W
> Details: no user downgrades Qt and therefore has eve
Hi,
On 25/05/2024 13:03, apoenitz wrote:
As an open source application developer I mostly care about SC, as SC breakages
means actual work for/me/.
To better understand: when you talk about SC, are you referring to
literally source compatibility (application can be recompiled with newer
vers
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 06:29:41PM +0200, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the discussions at the past Qt Contributors' Summit was about our BC
> policy:
>
> https://wiki.qt.io/Two-way_BC_in_Patch_Releases
>
> We had a consensus for implementing some changes, but I don'
On Friday 24 May 2024 13:29:41 GMT-3 Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote:
> Details: no user downgrades Qt and therefore has ever needed this. This
> is something that only Qt developers themselves have possibly needed --
> seems to be a historical remnant at this point.
>
> Concretely, this m
Hi,
One of the discussions at the past Qt Contributors' Summit was about our
BC policy:
https://wiki.qt.io/Two-way_BC_in_Patch_Releases
We had a consensus for implementing some changes, but I don't remember
the action points have been taken, so here we are.
We propose to change Qt's BC po
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