"Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" <[email protected]> wrote: >Note: only for pkg-kde-talk. > >On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez >Meyer >wrote: >> Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not >from >> beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to >double >> on arm*. >> >> We have the option to keep some archs in float by passing a >compilation >> parameter. I've done so for armel and sh4, so only armhf will switch >to >> double. >> >> Of course we are still on time to discuss this, and this is the >reason of >> this mail. What do you think WRT the above changes? >> >> On the other hand, if the above change is kept, symbols for Qt5 on >armhf >> managed with pkg-kde-tools' symbolshelper will need an explicit >double for >> armhf instead of using qreal's subst. This is because on Qt4 qreal >will be >> kept as float. > >There's still the chance of doing **quite a bit** of work and >backporting the >changes to Qt4 and make qreal a double on armhf too. But this means a >**big** >transition for armhf would be needed, but on the other hand >pkg-kde-tools' >symbolshelper could be changed to properly manage Qt4 and Qt5. > >I want to be clear: this last option could mean *lots* of work and I >would >definitely *not* go ahead with it without a patch to Qt4 ACKed by >upstream and >the rest of Qt/KDE-team. > >But I think at least should be considered and team approved/discarded. > >Kinds regards, Lisandro.
Doesn't this break binary compatibility? Did you discuss this with upstream already? Scott K -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk
