On Monday 30 January 2012 13:30:32 [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > The behaviour of QUrl::toLocalFile() was changed between Qt 4.7.4 and 4.8. I > would like to open discussion for reverting that change for 4.8 in order to > maintain backward compatibility for applications. > > The change concerns how toLocalFile() handles relative urls. Before 4.8 it returned the path, but in 4.8 it returns an empty string. > 4.7: QUrl("dir/file.html").toLocalFile(); returns "dir/file.html" > 4.8: QUrl("dir/file.html").toLocalFile(); returns QString() > > This change has been previously discussed in QTBUG-19827, and the conclusion > was that this is an intentional break of binary and source compatibility. > > The documentation doesn't specify how relative urls are handled by the > function. I can see how both behaviours make some sense. A relative url can > refer to a local file, but that can't be deduced from the url alone. 4.7 > took a more lenient approach and returned the relative path. In 4.8 relative > urls must be resolved first, and only when we know for sure that the url > refers to a local file, the path is returned. > > The behaviour of 4.7 gives application a bit more flexibility on how to > handle the urls. I can't see a clear benefit from the new behaviour. > > This is an unnecessary break of compatibility between minor versions, and > this has been found to break some paid applications in Ovi Store. For that > reason I would like to see the behaviour reverted for 4.8.
+1 This actually broke sounds notification in KDE https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291333 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288764 _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
