Re: [Development] Switch Qt Remote Objects to a Tech Preview for Qt 5.9

2017-01-11 Thread Lars Knoll
I didn't find time to have a more detailed look at the code so far, but hope to get to it over the weekend. But in general I think we need to put the bars for becoming a TP at the right level. It's not a fully supported module yet, and we put it out especially to collect feedback. So it

Re: [Development] Switch Qt Remote Objects to a Tech Preview for Qt 5.9

2017-01-11 Thread Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.)
On 1/11/17, 11:50 AM, "Development on behalf of Oswald Buddenhagen" wrote: >> >but my naive understanding of rpc implementations is that you actually >> >want to create some idl (is this what .rep is

Re: [Development] [root_ptr] GC + Automatic Reference Counting

2017-01-11 Thread Phil Bouchard
On 01/10/2017 06:46 PM, Phil Bouchard wrote: Greetings, To go back on the main subject, it came to my attention that Apple is using mostly "Automatic Reference Counting" since 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting The good news is it's not using the GC which makes

Re: [Development] Switch Qt Remote Objects to a Tech Preview for Qt 5.9

2017-01-11 Thread Tuukka Turunen
> -Original Message- > From: Development [mailto:development- > bounces+tuukka.turunen=qt...@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Oswald > Buddenhagen > Sent: keskiviikkona 11. tammikuuta 2017 18.50 > To: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Switch Qt Remote Objects to a Tech

Re: [Development] Switch Qt Remote Objects to a Tech Preview for Qt 5.9

2017-01-11 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:42:38AM +, Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.) wrote: > I guess to start off, I don’t consider QtRO to be a RPC mechanism. > In my mind, RPC would be akin to exposing a QObject’s slots for calling > individually. With QtRO (which only works Qt to Qt, it isn’t currently >

Re: [Development] Qt pi

2017-01-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
Lars Knoll: > plan sounds good, just go ahead :) I've opened QTBUG-58083 for the sake of tracking it. Anyone with further comments is welcome to look there. On IRC, peppe has pointed out using L may get narrowing warnings from some compilers. So I'll start with using M_PI and Math.PI more

Re: [Development] Qt pi

2017-01-11 Thread Lars Knoll
Hi Eddy, plan sounds good, just go ahead :) Cheers, Lars > On 11 Jan 2017, at 15:35, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > Hi all, > > In the course of testing 5.8.0, I was puzzled by an example hard-coding > a value for pi, rather than re-using one from some public header as I

[Development] Qt pi

2017-01-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi all, In the course of testing 5.8.0, I was puzzled by an example hard-coding a value for pi, rather than re-using one from some public header as I expected. To my surprise, the standard library only provides M_PI as a POSIX extension. It turns out we do have a qmath.h that, sensibly enough,

Re: [Development] Switch Qt Remote Objects to a Tech Preview for Qt 5.9

2017-01-11 Thread Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.)
On 1/11/17, 4:43 AM, "m...@kdab.com on behalf of Marc Mutz" wrote: >Hi Brett, > >On Wednesday 11 January 2017 01:42:38 Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.) wrote: >> With this picture in mind, the key to getting it to work is to hook into >> qt_metacall and

[Development] Review needed on QFileSelector

2017-01-11 Thread Lösch , Sebastian
Hello, I developed a patch to qt's core module to remove the necessity to have an unused base file when only loading variants of the file using the QFileSelector. I am looking for someone with knowledge in QFileSelector to review my patch on gerrit: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/175376/

Re: [Development] Switch Qt Remote Objects to a Tech Preview for Qt 5.9

2017-01-11 Thread Marc Mutz
Hi Brett, On Wednesday 11 January 2017 01:42:38 Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.) wrote: > With this picture in mind, the key to getting it to work is to hook into > qt_metacall and pass the invocations between processes. This takes custom > code, so QtRO has repc (REPlica Compiler) for this. It reads

Re: [Development] Switch Qt Remote Objects to a Tech Preview for Qt 5.9

2017-01-11 Thread Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.)
On 1/10/17, 7:42 PM, "Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.)" wrote: >On 1/10/17, 7:11 AM, "Development on behalf of Oswald Buddenhagen" >oswald.buddenha...@qt.io> wrote: > >>you mostly lost me here, because i just

[Development] New Qt 5.8 rc snapshot for testing

2017-01-11 Thread Jani Heikkinen
Hi We have new Qt 5.8.0 rc snapshot for testing Windows: http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.8/5.8.0-rc/720/ mac: http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.8/5.8.0-rc/726/ Linux: http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.8/5.8.0-rc/622/ src: http://download.qt.io/snapshots/qt/5.8/5.8.0-rc/latest_src/