Re: [Development] [RFCs] Migrate from GCC MinGW to LLVM MinGW

2023-07-19 Thread Scott Bloom
> * Support for generating debug info in PDB format How useful is this? Does gdb support this format? If not, then you wouldn't be able to debug stuff, meaning this is not a benefit at all. === I haven't tried this, however, according to what I have read this enables you to build

Re: [Development] Using '#pragma once' instead of include guards?

2022-10-10 Thread Scott Bloom
My two bits as a user of Qt. Please make sure any exposed headers use the old-school guards and NOT the #pragma once. I don’t care how the internal Qt headers work. However, Ive been burned too many times by the "known issues" of the #pragma once to want to use them. The problem isn’t if the

[Development] QNetworkAccessManager

2022-08-26 Thread Scott Bloom
I was able to work out the issues, but I have two recommendations for QNAM 1. If you don't have openssl properly installed, and you attempt to make a https connection, it should give an ssl error * While Ive dealt with this issue a number of times, it continually bites me in the butt

Re: [Development] [Announce] Security advisory: Freetype in Qt

2022-07-27 Thread Scott Bloom
On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 2:50 PM To: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] [Announce] Security advisory: Freetype in Qt On Wednesday, 27 July 2022 14:28:05 PDT Scott Bloom wrote: > Outside opinion. I know many non-commercial who tend to st

Re: [Development] [Announce] Security advisory: Freetype in Qt

2022-07-27 Thread Scott Bloom
Outside opinion. I know many non-commercial who tend to stick with the LTS for their projects. Scott -Original Message- From: Development On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 1:23 PM To: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] [Announce] Security

Re: [Development] QTreeView: vertical bar between columns

2022-05-17 Thread Scott Bloom
Adding a +1 here. Where I have created a “similar” treeview with tableview similarities is when viewing SQL data results. The tree aspect, represents the sorted on column with duplicate data. For instance, say you had a model that was Firstaname, lastname, address, city, state, zipcode and

[Development] QStandardPaths on windows

2022-03-01 Thread Scott Bloom
On linux, you can overwrite most of the QStandardPaths using the XDG_ environment variables. However, I don't see anyway to do the same for Windows. Windows appears always goes to the systems SHGetKnownFolderPath. In a similar manner to QSettings being able to set a specific directory, I

Re: [Development] moc output from non-local tool build

2021-11-05 Thread Scott Bloom
Why wouldn’t they simply have two versions of Qt ( or more) the one they are targeting for desktop, and the previous one they are targeting for android/"remote" -Original Message- From: Development On Behalf Of Joerg Bornemann Sent: Friday, November 5, 2021 2:28 AM To: Volker

Re: [Development] Renamed (again): Qt licensing shenanigans (again)

2021-05-21 Thread Scott Bloom
The sad part in all this.. the amount of negative discussion about Qt, when TQtC could fix this easily, simply maintain LTS at the opensource license. If they want patch releases in general not to be open source fixes, fine. Ie 6.1 is opensource, 6.1.1 is not.. But when a LTS is released,

Re: [Development] Raising minimum CMake version to 3.16 for Qt6

2021-05-05 Thread Scott Bloom
One thing to consider here. Visual Studio is now shipping CMake, its also getting updated for patches of a given version of VS, and is not the same from VS 2019 or VS 2017 I know of a couple of teams that are using the VS version of CMake on windows to alleviate the need for another

Re: [Development] Spam: Re: Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January

2021-01-05 Thread Scott Bloom
On Monday, 4 January 2021 20:32:27 -03 Scott Bloom wrote: > The funny thing, I remember at a Qt Dev Days when Qt 5 was about a > year away. The "we will never do a Qt 3-4 type major version change > again" was said time and time again. > > Where functionality was miss

Re: [Development] Spam: Re: Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January

2021-01-04 Thread Scott Bloom
-Original Message- From: Development On Behalf Of Kevin Kofler via Development Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 3:16 PM To: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Spam: Re: Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January Oswald Buddenhagen

[Development] Problems using Qt 5.12/5.15

2020-10-20 Thread Scott Bloom
So I wanted bring up some issues the company I work for is having using 5.12 and 5.15. Our customers (IC development companies large and small) are extremely slow to move their OS. We had customers who are still using CentOS 6.X . These customers, often will NOT move OS’s once a project has

Re: [Development] qsizetype and classes working with QStrings or QList

2020-09-01 Thread Scott Bloom
> On 27 Aug 2020, at 08:04, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development > wrote: > > Hi, > > Il 27/08/20 02:46, Thiago Macieira ha scritto: >> A QListView of 2 billion lines with where each line is a QString one >> to 7 characters in length would be 2G * (24 + 32) = 96 GB of memory use. >> QListWidget's

Re: [Development] qsizetype and classes working with QStrings or QList

2020-08-26 Thread Scott Bloom
From: Development On Behalf Of Ville Voutilainen Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 12:08 AM To: Lars Knoll Cc: Qt development mailing list Subject: Re: [Development] qsizetype and classes working with QStrings or QList On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 09:39, Lars Knoll wrote: > > QtGui: > > *

Re: [Development] qsizetype and classes working with QStrings or QList

2020-08-25 Thread Scott Bloom
Or for( auto ii = 0; ii < std::vector.size(); ++ii ) { } since there is no suffix for "size_t" and the size of size_t will depend on 64 vs 32 bits whats the best way to AAA the index iterator? Scott -Original Message- From: Development [mailto:development-boun...@qt-project.org] On

Re: [Development] What project are Qt+CMake bugs part of

2020-03-09 Thread Scott Bloom
Thanks! -Original Message- From: Kevin Funk Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 2:56 PM To: development@qt-project.org Cc: Scott Bloom ; Development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] What project are Qt+CMake bugs part of On Monday, 9 March 2020 22:15:02 CET Scott Bloom wrote: >

[Development] What project are Qt+CMake bugs part of

2020-03-09 Thread Scott Bloom
I found a bug in Qt5CoreMacros.cmake where on windows in a path with the QT5_MAKE_OUTPUT_FILE macro constructs invalid file names. What project should this be filed against in JIRA? Scott ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org

Re: [Development] The future of smart pointers in Qt API

2020-02-03 Thread Scott Bloom
From: Development [mailto:development-boun...@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of André Pönitz Sent: Monday, February 3, 2020 3:50 PM To: Giuseppe D'Angelo Cc: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] The future of smart pointers in Qt API On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 10:25:40PM +0100,

Re: [Development] Changes to Qt offering

2020-01-31 Thread Scott Bloom
Re-reading Mark's initial post. One thing, that I had requested from the trolls almost 20 years ago.. which Ill put out there again, is a "non-developer" license that allows people who don’t develop using Qt, but the product they work on uses it somewhere, and thus its required to build. For

Re: [Development] Rationalizing qApp and qGuiApp

2020-01-20 Thread Scott Bloom
From: Development [mailto:development-boun...@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Elvis Stansvik Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2020 4:33 AM To: Sze Howe Koh Cc: Qt development mailing list Subject: Re: [Development] Rationalizing qApp and qGuiApp Den lör 18 jan. 2020 kl 11:05 skrev Sze Howe Koh : > >

Re: [Development] Proposing CMake as build tool for Qt 6

2019-06-15 Thread Scott Bloom
On Saturday, 15 June 2019 12:22:34 PDT Bogdan Vatra via Development wrote: > > Why must they be built in one go? Why can't they be separate builds > > stitched together? Or even completely separate builds as on Linux > > and all the other Unix? > > Because qmake can build them in one go and

Re: [Development] QList for Qt 6

2019-06-02 Thread Scott Bloom
I'm a bit late to this game, but ... > I don’t see why you’d want to remove the switch for Qt 6. > It would be a porting help for application developers. Application developers will not build their own Qt, but rely on the QList with the switch their Qt and Qt-using 3rd party libraries are

Re: [Development] Views

2019-05-17 Thread Scott Bloom
breaking half of the world (i.e. no final decision so far) and this discussion started long time ago, so you've had (and still have plenty of) time to revisit usages of QList in your codebase and replace it with more appropriate container. > 17 мая 2019 г., в 19:47, Scott Bloom написа

Re: [Development] Views

2019-05-17 Thread Scott Bloom
On Friday, 17 May 2019 09:38:05 PDT Marco Bubke wrote: > Thiago, you partially implying that BC is still needed but with > technologies like flatpak or snappy this will maybe not common use > case anymore. They provide even behaviour compatibility if you stay with the > same runtime. >

Re: [Development] unique_ptr and Qt, Take 2

2019-05-03 Thread Scott Bloom
On Friday, 3 May 2019 10:22:20 PDT Daniel Teske wrote: > std::unique_ptr rightButton = > std::make_unique("RIGHT"); > layout->addWidget(std::move(rightButton)); The problem in this particular example is that once you've added the widget, the rightButton smart pointer no longer has a pointer.

Re: [Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements

2018-07-31 Thread Scott Bloom
-Original Message- From: Development On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 11:41 To: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Qt 6 buildsystem support requirements On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 11:15:50 PDT Ville Voutilainen wrote: > This provoked a

Re: [Development] clang-format

2018-06-22 Thread Scott Bloom
> I cant even get my developers to agree the emacs takes to many fingers, and > VI(m) is the only editor they need > > Let alone, where the brackets and spaces belong > > Let alone, if statements on the same line as the conditional > > The problem ive seen, is while you may LOVE the

Re: [Development] clang-format

2018-06-22 Thread Scott Bloom
o take care of code-formatting, thanks to clang-format, eases programming. And looking at someone else code with a familiar format, gives the feeling "I am home" (provided some naming guideline is respected). Philippe On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:34:09 + Scott Bloom wrote: > Fair enough