Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-12 Thread Knight Andrew
The alternative is to put this code inside qmake itself, so no new binary is created. This has the advantage that several Qt classes are already bootstrapped, including the filesystem engine. A bit late to the conversation, but wouldn't a nice first step / middle ground be modifying qtsync

[Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
First of all, let me apologise for my behaviour in the thread on dependency bloat. I've re-read my first reply and it was clearly out of line. And the number of off-ML messages I got also indicates that. So, my deepest apologies for letting my personal feelings and frustrations with Windows

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Scott Aron Bloom
[mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:50 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important) First of all, let me apologise for my behaviour

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Justin Ferguson
hi, On Apr 10, 2013 5:50 PM, Thiago Macieira thiago.macie...@intel.com wrote: First of all, let me apologise for my behaviour in the thread on dependency bloat. I've re-read my first reply and it was clearly out of line. And the number of off-ML messages I got also indicates that. same.

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2013 23.03.53, Scott Aron Bloom wrote: Do you have a specification for what the perl script is required to do? Use the source, Luke! ? :-) Basically, it needs to scan all the *.h files in a given directory and partially interpret the C++ class declarations in

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Scott Aron Bloom
=onshorecs@qt-project.org [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 5:37 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important) On quarta

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2013 19.28.10, Justin Ferguson wrote: that make sense on Windows must be implemented on Windows before they are accepted. Any changes made anywhere must not break the build on Windows please accept this criticism as earnest, heartfelt and with the best

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Scott Aron Bloom
+scott=onshorecs@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Jackson Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:31 PM To: interest@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important) On Apr 10, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Thiago Macieira thiago.macie...@intel.com

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Michael Jackson
(a.k.a yes Windows is still important) On Apr 10, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Thiago Macieira thiago.macie...@intel.com wrote: Yes, there's a way. To tell you the truth, I was wondering if it could be done in C++ with only the Standard Library. I've recently done that (qtchooser) and it wasn't

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2013 21.54.29, Michael Jackson wrote: So we have to move include files around during the build because command line lengths are too long? I have never understood why the header for QString isn't QString.h. Why is it qstring.h? The header is qstring.h because it

Re: [Interest] Apologies on the bloat thread (a.k.a yes Windows is still important)

2013-04-10 Thread Christoph Cullmann
Hi, 1) the overwhelming majority of Windows downloads are of the pre-compiled binaries and have been for as long as I can remember, so we will continue to invest time to make that better, easier, more efficient That's why we're now going to ship an MSVC2012 64-bit build, a non-ANGLE