On Wednesday 07 September 2011 Sep, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 01:42:47PM +0300, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > In other words, before changing something so it needs porting, people > > really should look at the real, actual codebase of a couple of big > > projects that might be affected. > > > it doesn't matter how many TLOC are affected if the change is fully > automatable.
All I wanted to say, irrespective of whether you think you can automate the porting, that the actual task of porting a real codebase is much, much, much, like orders of magnitude, bigger than it seems. > in fact, for qt5 we defined "source compatible" to mean > "porting can be fully automated". Would be nice, but it means that Qt5 won't be "source compatible" following the definition, nor will KDE5. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong, of course. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl
