On terça-feira, 22 de novembro de 2016 07:00:17 PST Marc Mutz wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2016 02:07:08 Thiago Macieira wrote: > > That said, sometimes rebuilding even if there was no dependency on the > > private API could result in improvements. For example, every time we add > > overloads there's a chance that the new method is faster and will get > > selected. > > Its even worse: if Qt fixes a bug in an inline function, no application will > benefit unless recompiled, either. So for any Qt user, and esp. distros, > not recompiling all users of Qt when Qt changes runs the risk of not > getting some of the bug fixes, leading to users seeing those bugs together > with Qt versions in which they're officially fixed.
True, but there are two important factors in this: 1) those bugfixes and overload additions are not so common 2) application rebuilding can happen at a leisure pace, when resources are available or when the application would have been updated anyway -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
