Re: [Development] QLocale work

2012-01-18 Thread Shaw Andy
On 1/18/12 2:21 PM, lars.kn...@nokia.com lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: We need to avoid the problem of printf / scanf that use different decimal conventions depending on the user locale. That means the naive implementation will be unable to parse the data it generated under a different locale

Re: [Development] QLocale work

2012-01-19 Thread Shaw Andy
On 1/19/12 4:15 AM, Thiago Macieira thiago.macie...@intel.com wrote: On Wednesday, 18 de January de 2012 21.24.36, Shaw Andy wrote: For what it is worth I also agree that it should be changed, having recently having to deal with the QDoubleValidator problem when it came to this became

[Development] Having a reserved value for the platform enums was RE: Binary incompatible changes to Qt 4.8

2012-05-24 Thread Shaw Andy
[snip] The warning needs to go away, at least, provided that Qt *is* tested on Windows 8. Whether we add the enum or not, that's a bit orthogonal. Yes, the warning needs to be fixed. But I don't have any problems with adding the new enum in a patch level release. The only thing it can

Re: [Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

2012-09-10 Thread Shaw Andy
On domingo, 9 de setembro de 2012 13.25.29, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: The solution for a bug can never be to wilfully break existing applications! What can I as an application developer depend on if that's deemed acceptable? Yeah, we had a feature, and yeah, people depend on it, but we

Re: [Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

2012-09-10 Thread Shaw Andy
On 10 September 2012 12:58, Shaw Andy andy.s...@digia.com wrote: To clarify, I did the patch that everyone is referring to, I actually did it in my Nokia days when I had access to the tablet and passed it on to someone after I joined Digia. It is a hack because I had to try and get

Re: [Development] What's with bugreports.qt-project.org?

2012-09-26 Thread Shaw Andy
26.09.2012, в 14:15, Konstantin Tokarev annu...@yandex.ru написал(а): 26.09.2012, 11:09, Иван Комиссаров abba...@gmail.com: I would like to ask a question - what's with Qt Jira? Does any people really look at it and fix bugs? For the past 2 years, situation get worse and worse - 3-4

Re: [Development] What's with bugreports.qt-project.org?

2012-09-26 Thread Shaw Andy
-Original Message- From: Stephen Chu [mailto:step...@ju-ju.com] Sent: 26. september 2012 15:55 To: Shaw Andy Cc: Иван Комиссаров; Konstantin Tokarev; development Subject: Re: [Development] What's with bugreports.qt-project.org? On 9/26/12 6:44 AM, Shaw Andy wrote: I am just

Re: [Development] Nominating Andy Shaw for Approver

2012-10-15 Thread Shaw Andy
On Oct 15, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Mark Brand mabr...@mabrand.nl wrote: João Abecasis wrote: Hi, I'd like to nominate Andy Shaw for Approver status. Andy's history with Qt is longer than my own, having catered to commercial customers in Trolltech, Nokia and Digia. Looking over the main

Re: [Development] Summary of renaming changes

2012-10-19 Thread Shaw Andy
looks like there's quite some discussion about Thiago's proposal. Let's see if we can get at least agreement on most of the changes and then focus on the parts that are controversial. Going through the list below, most of the changes will not affect anybody in a big way. On Oct 18,

Re: [Development] RFC: What constitutes a non-destabilising bug-fix?

2012-12-10 Thread Shaw Andy
-Original Message- From: development-bounces+andy.shaw=digia@qt-project.org [mailto:development-bounces+andy.shaw=digia@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Marc Mutz Sent: 9. desember 2012 14:23 To: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] RFC: What constitutes a

[Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-11 Thread Shaw Andy
As I was investigating a different problem I came across a bigger issue regarding ICU on Windows. The problem is that when ICU is linked against on Windows it links against the same copy of the library even if it is building for release which causes a problem with C runtime libraries on

Re: [Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-11 Thread Shaw Andy
On sexta-feira, 11 de janeiro de 2013 13.32.35, Shaw Andy wrote: Unfortunately this is what is happening now if ICU is linked in, ICU will always use the release version so if Qt is built in debug mode then it will end up mixing the C runtime libraries. Either way I feel

Re: [Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-11 Thread Shaw Andy
[...] Microsoft in the past has also said that you should keep the -MD(d)/-MT(d) setting consistent so it is the same across all libraries and applications, [...] Which is cool, if you can manage it. But it's far from what happens in the real world. In the real world you have

Re: [Development] ICU and Windows

2013-01-14 Thread Shaw Andy
To get things back on track, I think we have a case for either way saying that we could ignore it as since as long as it's done the correct way then it should be fine. But there is also a case for doing the right thing as far as what is recommended by Microsoft in this case especially since we

Re: [Development] How and when recent 4.8 docs will be published on http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8

2013-01-17 Thread Shaw Andy
On 17/01/13 14:51, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/4.8/qsettings.html is instead recreated nightly or so, so you'll see the note added in that commit. Aha! Ok... How should one know that the docs on http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/ are from 4.8.4? In the older

Re: [Development] QtMultimedia BIC / header cleanliness issue

2013-01-22 Thread Shaw Andy
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:40:23 AM Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:14:03AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote: On segunda-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2013 15.33.59, Knoll Lars wrote: Finally reading up on some old emails… I'd say we add the virtual destructors.

Re: [Development] abandoning stale changes on gerrit

2013-01-29 Thread Shaw Andy
5.0 is out and the 5.1 feature freeze isn't that far off any more. seems like the best time for some serious house cleaning. therefore i'd like to urge everyone to give their pending changes which haven't seen activity for a long time a honest look. please explicitly mark the ones you still

Re: [Development] Closing Jira Bugs

2013-01-30 Thread Shaw Andy
Op 30-1-2013 19:34, Robin Burchell schreef: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Sergio Ahumada s...@sansano.inf.utfsm.cl wrote: How many changes do you need to close a jira task ? one, two, more, who knows ? The person submitting the change. The way I've seen this done various other

[Development] Setting the priority of bug reports created the Qt Support team

2013-02-15 Thread Shaw Andy
Hi, Before the transition to Qt being developed in the open via open governance, the Qt Support team back in Trolltech and later Nokia, would prioritize the bugs that were created, or at least handled, by them. Typically these would be bugs that were brought to our attention by commercial

Re: [Development] Setting the priority of bug reports created the Qt Support team

2013-02-15 Thread Shaw Andy
[snip] What I would like to suggest that we do now is bring back this practice, so that the Qt Support team will set a priority on the bugs that it creates or handles, so that it makes things easier for the maintainers to actually see what issues are potentially a higher priority than the

Re: [Development] Preparing Qt 5.0.2 release

2013-02-22 Thread Shaw Andy
Merge from stable to release branch is now done. Changes that are intended to get in for Qt 5.0.2 need to be pushed into release branch. Now that the merge has done, doesn't this in effect mean that stable is now in reality Qt 5.1.0 based as dev will be merged to stable on 15th March? If that

Re: [Development] Setting the priority of bug reports created the Qt Support team

2013-02-24 Thread Shaw Andy
Before the transition to Qt being developed in the open via open governance, the Qt Support team back in Trolltech and later Nokia, would prioritize the bugs that were created, or at least handled, by them. Typically these would be bugs that were brought to our attention by commercial

Re: [Development] [QA] Suggestion -- Bug Reports' Assignment

2013-03-12 Thread Shaw Andy
I would expect that the workflow is that if a report is set to be In progress then this is the indication that someone is actually working on the report, if we start using the assigner for this indication then it sounds like it will complicate matters even further. Also, if a P1 is created and

Re: [Development] Starting preparations for Qt 5.1

2013-03-18 Thread Shaw Andy
Making of Qt 5.1 minor release will soon start: - Plan is to move 'dev' into 'stable' branch on March 19th. - After March 19th any changes that are required to get in for 5.1 need to be pushed into 'stable' branch. So if your needed changes don't make it today, please wait after the

Re: [Development] Spring-cleaning the Gerrit dashboards, again

2013-03-20 Thread Shaw Andy
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:31:17AM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote: Can we please agree on cleaning the dashboards up? Or, if we've agreed, can we do it? i think there was consensus to do it. however, it depends on https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTQAINFRA-598 to find acceptance,

Re: [Development] Fixing file dialog performance on Windows

2013-03-20 Thread Shaw Andy
The file dialog takes up to 30 seconds to be usable if we're listing files on a USB or remote share with 10k files. The bottlenecks are QFileIconProvider::icon(const QFileInfo info) and QFileInfo::isSymLink(). I solved the icon problem by looking them up in the registry, by

Re: [Development] Question about the missing projects in qt-solutions

2013-04-24 Thread Shaw Andy
I know the background for this pretty well since I was involved with the original transfer of the solution code from TT to Nokia. Basically the code was not transferred to Digia at all and it was not initially made publically available either when the code was released under the BSD license

Re: [Development] Builds failing due to android host

2013-05-22 Thread Shaw Andy
That doesn't make it a valid thing to still do, testing or not. I am not sure what others think but do we want to still do upgrades to things on CI this late into a release process? Andy From: Sarajärvi Tony Sent: 22. mai 2013 10:54 To: Shaw Andy; development@qt-project.org Subject: RE: Builds

Re: [Development] Builds failing due to android host

2013-05-22 Thread Shaw Andy
a generally more safer time. As such now the merge from stable to release as to wait because of the CI trouble, which puts more pressure on the actual schedule. Andy From: Sarajärvi Tony Sent: 22. mai 2013 11:45 To: Shaw Andy; development@qt-project.org Subject: RE: Builds failing due to android host

Re: [Development] Pending Jira changes

2013-08-23 Thread Shaw Andy
I looked into the desired workflow changes for Jira (as discussed on this list) and am doing some general cleanups which I would like to bring up at this point. The more invasive bulk changes will happen on Monday while others have already happened. Please note that this may temporarily

Re: [Development] Qt 5.2 header diff: QtWidgets

2013-11-05 Thread Shaw Andy
IIRC it wasn't even compiled into the QtWidgets library, although the documentation and everything existed, those symbols were never in Qt. Morten can say 100% at least but that is my understanding and recollection at least. Andy From: development-bounces+andy.shaw=digia@qt-project.org

Re: [Development] Dropping XP?

2013-12-10 Thread Shaw Andy
FWIW, Browser stats fun: Bar chart last 30 days: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201312-201312-bar (Windows XP still has 18.52%) Trend chart: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-200808-201311 Of course - it's declining. The decline seems actually to flatten out. I think

Re: [Development] Plans for printing in 5.3 onwards

2014-02-05 Thread Shaw Andy
I’ve now gone through all changes. The set looks pretty good overall, and testing on Linux showed no regressions compared to 5.2. One correction here: The paperRect as shown in the preview of the dialogs manual test shows some slightly different results, that look like a rounding issue. Not

Re: [Development] Plans for printing in 5.3 onwards

2014-02-10 Thread Shaw Andy
I’ve now gone through all changes. The set looks pretty good overall, and testing on Linux showed no regressions compared to 5.2. One correction here: The paperRect as shown in the preview of the dialogs manual test shows some slightly different results, that look like a rounding

Re: [Development] Plans for printing in 5.3 onwards

2014-02-12 Thread Shaw Andy
* Keep the patches switching to the new platform plugin code in reserve to either switch for 5.3 if testing proves the plugin is stable enough, or more likely to use in 5.4 if not. I like this idea at least, because this enables the reviews to keep going and we can keep testing until we are

[Development] Question about deferred delete handling in sendPostedEvents

2014-02-17 Thread Shaw Andy
Hi, I was looking at a problem regarding deferred deletes causing a crash inside nested loops and it was pointed out that in QCoreApplication::setPostedEvents() there is some code there that determines whether it is safe to delete the object or not. From my understanding it will only delete an

Re: [Development] Question about deferred delete handling in sendPostedEvents

2014-02-17 Thread Shaw Andy
I was looking at a problem regarding deferred deletes causing a crash inside nested loops and it was pointed out that in QCoreApplication::setPostedEvents() there is some code there that determines whether it is safe to delete the object or not. From my understanding it will only delete

Re: [Development] CI Broken for 4.8

2014-03-06 Thread Shaw Andy
I was informed earlier in the week that it was known and being investigated, there was a problem with the Mac OS X 10.6 machine but I was also under the impression that it would be fixed already by now so I don't know what is happening with it at the moment. Andy From:

Re: [Development] Harmonizing the Qt 5.x Documentation

2014-03-11 Thread Shaw Andy
Em ter 11 mar 2014, às 17:17:46, Andre Somers escreveu: I seriously don't see the benefit of this harmonization. When I look at the docs for a class, I often just look for method names that seem to do what I need. That usually works very with Qt. Now, I will need to go check for every

Re: [Development] Problems pushing changes to Gerrit

2014-03-17 Thread Shaw Andy
Gerrit seems to reject some of my changes with this error: $ git push ssh://mandri...@codereview.qt-project.org/qt/qt HEAD:refs/for/4.8 error: error: invalid protocol: wanted 'old new ref' fatal: internal server error fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Counting objects:

Re: [Development] configure -developer-build --prefix=$PWD/qtbase

2014-03-27 Thread Shaw Andy
Em qua 26 mar 2014, às 08:21:20, Alan Ezust escreveu: Does anyone understand what the difference is between a qt that is configured like this: ./configure -developer-build versus a Qt that is configured like this: configure -developer-build --prefix=$PWD/qtbase according to

Re: [Development] Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen Changes

2014-08-14 Thread Shaw Andy
I am porting an application to Qt5/KF5 and was surprised to see the main widget of the application was showing all black. There are screenshots of the original version and the buggy version[1] online. I removed setAttribute( Qt::WA_PaintOnScreen, true ); on that widget and the

Re: [Development] Removing win32-msvc2005 for 5.5?

2014-11-24 Thread Shaw Andy
As the subject says, ok to do it? Note that this does *NOT* apply to wince60*-msvc2005 mkspecs. If there are no objections, we'll do it in one week. I think it is certainly safe to remove it, it hasn't been supported in a long time and I doubt it even works. Andy

Re: [Development] QString behavior change

2015-08-12 Thread Shaw Andy
What are the chances that such a change can be accepted ? (i mean, i can submit such a patch, but that would mean breaking a *lot* of code). QOptional does not exist yet and for very good reasons. QVariant is already in use, so I don't think you'd be sending a patch to use

Re: [Development] Please do not remove QtWebkit from 5.6 official binaries

2015-12-03 Thread Shaw Andy
There is QPdfWriter at least which is a paint device, so you could use that for generating PDFs as that is available iOS from what I can see. Andy From: Development [mailto:development-boun...@qt-project.org] On Behalf Of Edward Sutton Sent: 3. desember 2015 15:09 To: Mark De Wit Cc:

Re: [Development] Please do not remove QtWebkit from 5.6 official binaries

2015-12-04 Thread Shaw Andy
. If this is not happening then please report it as it should be handled correctly in that instance. Andy From: Edward Sutton [mailto:edward.sut...@subsite.com] Sent: 4. desember 2015 15:07 To: Mark De Wit Cc: Shaw Andy; development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Please do not remove

[Development] Auto-assignment in JIRA

2016-02-25 Thread Shaw Andy
I was creating another bug report earlier today in JIRA and I noticed that it was assigning to someone who didn't seem to be right for the component at all since I don't believe they are the maintainer for it and I recalled that this is not the first time I've noticed that the auto-assigner is