On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Alan Alpert <[email protected]> wrote:
> The advantages of the other approach is that we can be honest about the
> version numbers. The major and minor version implications for Qt and QML have
> diverged slightly, especially in the patch releases. A patch release for Qt
> should not affect public C++ API, and this is entirely consistent with a new
> minor release of QML (which can add new QML API, the QML versioning system
> allows this to be safe).

Besides not affecting public C++ API I also don't think it's a good
"behavior" to add features on a minor release. Minor releases are
meant to fix stuff of the major release, that's why we call it patch
releases :)

Right now it only happened in Qt 4.7.4 and at least for my customers
it caused a lot of confusion. If you don't think about Nokia (which
only has good reasons to do this because of weird situations), I can't
think about good reasons to add features on minor versions as
everybody else is also waiting for the major release to get their
features into Qt.

Cheers,

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