Yes, once the patch is in 5.x and it affects 4.8 as well, it¹s usually ok to back port.
Cheers, Lars On 18.11.13 11:06, "Milian Wolff" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hey all, > >I'd like to ask again whether I could backport some performance >improvements >in QTextLayout/QTextEngine from Qt5 to Qt4. > >Most notably there is https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,34112 >which >effects us in Kate/KDE as outlined here: >https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225228 > >The changeset above was merged in Qt5 and matured there, see >https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,34118 > >What I propose is to sync the current status of QTextLayout/QTextEngine >from >Qt5, put it into a patchset for Qt4 and get it into the next Qt4 release. > >Would this be accepted? Or is there still a policy which forbids >performance >improvements to be merged into Qt4? Considering that the above makes the >Kate >editor practically useless for some files (freezes for multiple minutes), >I >personally see this as a bug fix anyways... > >Bye >-- >Milian Wolff >[email protected] >http://milianw.de >_______________________________________________ >Development mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
