[Development] QtWebEngine unbundled of third-party libraries on Linux

2015-08-11 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
Hello Qt QtWebEngine and Chromium in the Qt 5.6 branch have been patched to allow linking with system libraries on Linux instead of bundled libraries. For most libraries the system library will be used if development files are detected on the system. ICU and FFMPEG however defaults to using

Re: [Development] QString behavior change

2015-08-11 Thread Julien Blanc
Le vendredi 31 juillet 2015 à 09:01 -0700, Thiago Macieira a écrit : thiago.macie...@intel.com wrote: In this particular case, it was reasoned that the API was inconsistent and broken. So the behaviour was changed intentionally. TBH, it looks like it's still inconsistent (an empty

Re: [Development] Playground request: qtmirserver

2015-08-11 Thread Paul Olav Tvete
On Monday 10. August 2015 16.34.49 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 02:36:34PM +0200, Paul Olav Tvete wrote: So what we are talking about here is the platform plugin for Mir servers, together with a Qt Quick plugin for writing a Mir compositor. i'm confused ... what is

[Development] New Module Request: QtGeniviExtras

2015-08-11 Thread Dominik Holland
Hi, i would like to request a new qt module repository for QtGeniviExtras. The current code can be found here: https://github.com/Pelagicore/qtgeniviextras The goal of QtGeniviExtras is similar to QtWinExtras or QtMacExtras and provides Platform dependent Qt additions. In this case for the

Re: [Development] Playground request: qtmirserver

2015-08-11 Thread Paul Olav Tvete
On Monday 10. August 2015 16.34.49 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: would the repository be imported as-is (git fast-import from bzr), filter-branched, or re-created? I think fast-import is the simplest. There are probably some packaging related configuration files that are not relevant in the Qt

Re: [Development] QString behavior change

2015-08-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday 11 August 2015 10:38:27 Julien Blanc wrote: That point is certainly valid, but i would like to raise the point that string nullness is a *required* feature for QtSQL (a null QString is converted to a NULL SQL, whereas a non-null empty QString is converted That's a misfeature. QtSql

Re: [Development] New Module Request: QtGeniviExtras

2015-08-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday 11 August 2015 09:59:19 Dominik Holland wrote: Hi, i would like to request a new qt module repository for QtGeniviExtras. The current code can be found here: https://github.com/Pelagicore/qtgeniviextras The goal of QtGeniviExtras is similar to QtWinExtras or QtMacExtras and

Re: [Development] QString behavior change

2015-08-11 Thread Julien Blanc
Le mardi 11 août 2015 à 08:46 -0700, Thiago Macieira a écrit : On Tuesday 11 August 2015 10:38:27 Julien Blanc wrote: That point is certainly valid, but i would like to raise the point that string nullness is a *required* feature for QtSQL (a null QString is converted to a NULL SQL,

Re: [Development] QString behavior change

2015-08-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday 11 August 2015 19:09:22 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: I would second that. We can argue that the null vs empty is a misfeature we like to discourage because it is likely to break in some corner-cases, but until we get rid of it (Qt6), there is no reason to not try to be consistent,

Re: [Development] QString behavior change

2015-08-11 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Tuesday 11 August 2015, Julien Blanc wrote: Le mardi 11 août 2015 à 08:46 -0700, Thiago Macieira a écrit : On Tuesday 11 August 2015 10:38:27 Julien Blanc wrote: That point is certainly valid, but i would like to raise the point that string nullness is a *required* feature for QtSQL (a

Re: [Development] QString behavior change

2015-08-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday 11 August 2015 18:45:10 Julien Blanc wrote: Le mardi 11 août 2015 à 08:46 -0700, Thiago Macieira a écrit : On Tuesday 11 August 2015 10:38:27 Julien Blanc wrote: That point is certainly valid, but i would like to raise the point that string nullness is a *required* feature for

Re: [Development] QtWebEngine unbundled of third-party libraries on Linux

2015-08-11 Thread Robert Knight
QtWebEngine and Chromium in the Qt 5.6 branch have been patched to allow linking with system libraries on Linux instead of bundled libraries. What upstream changes have the Chromium team made to the bundled libraries compared to the system ones and are Chromium upstream supportive of taking