Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-18 Thread Craig.Scott
Every Linux distro uses X.org, which uses XCB. Including openSUSE 11.1, but just any XCB is not enough. It needs to be more recent than some version. For users with an incompatible version of XCB, I think we can provide a better user experience than hitting compiler errors when building

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Craig.Scott
On 18/03/2012, at 9:58 AM, Pier Luigi wrote: 2012/3/17 Bradley Smith bsm...@baysmith.com: The workaround for systems that don't meet the minimum requirements is to upgrade. Running brand, new and bleeding edge Qt 5 on an old system is not a target for us. Simply upgrade -- at the very

Re: [Development] Qt 5 and old versions of XCB

2012-03-17 Thread Craig.Scott
On 18/03/2012, at 11:53 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: On domingo, 18 de março de 2012 11.43.02, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: That's fine when you are only building an application to run on your machine, but for people who want to distribute Qt5 apps, this would be an undesirable solution. You'd

Re: [Development] Changing qreal to a float

2012-02-19 Thread Craig.Scott
On 20/02/2012, at 1:29 PM, Lincoln Ramsay wrote: On 02/17/2012 09:58 PM, ext lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: On the idea itself I'd like to hear some more opinions. Removing qreal would cause some SC breakage, but you would also get a compile error on places that could break. Unfortunately the

Re: [Development] RFC: The Future of QDoc

2012-02-12 Thread Craig.Scott
On 11/02/2012, at 12:47 AM, André Somers wrote: My suggestion would be this: 1) If possible, documentation goes right above the relevant code (implementation or declaration) 2) Prefer the implementation over the declaration when you have to choose 3) If neither is possible, prefer the

Re: [Development] RFC: The Future of QDoc

2012-02-12 Thread Craig.Scott
On 10/02/2012, at 5:13 AM, marius.storm-ol...@nokia.commailto:marius.storm-ol...@nokia.com marius.storm-ol...@nokia.commailto:marius.storm-ol...@nokia.com wrote: I think there are a few issues here: 1) Only Dimitri touches Doxygen code, and it doesn't look like contributions go in (at least

Re: [Development] Dropping QT_NO_STL

2012-02-07 Thread Craig.Scott
From: lars.kn...@nokia.commailto:lars.kn...@nokia.com lars.kn...@nokia.commailto:lars.kn...@nokia.com Date: 2 February 2012 4:49:45 AM AEDT To: thiago.macie...@intel.commailto:thiago.macie...@intel.com thiago.macie...@intel.commailto:thiago.macie...@intel.com,

Re: [Development] Work on qDebug and friends

2012-01-28 Thread Craig.Scott
Sorry for the lack of context (dealing with digest emails while on leave :-P ). With the talk about logging in this thread, is it of interest / scope to also have the associated classes support capturing the standard C/C++ streams? By this, I mean capturing whatever gets logged via std::cout or

Re: [Development] API review for a new QDnsResolver class

2012-01-04 Thread Craig.Scott
On 05/01/2012, at 3:51 AM, Jeremy Lainé wrote: Replying to myself to try and get the discussion going again. A summary of API decisions so far: - we only provide an asynchronous API - we do not want a manager object (QNAM-style) to avoid users creating a manager per lookup - we

Re: [Development] API review for a new QDnsResolver class

2012-01-04 Thread Craig.Scott
On 05/01/2012, at 12:11 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Thursday, 5 de January de 2012 12.07.37, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: On 05/01/2012, at 11:47 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Thursday, 5 de January de 2012 11.03.42, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: This could be perceived as creating a race

Re: [Development] Possible bug in signals and slots handling in QML.

2012-01-03 Thread Craig.Scott
Starting a signal name with an underscore could be viewed as a violation of the C++ standard, depending on how you interpret it. Item 17.4.3.1.2 in the standard reserves names beginning with an underscore as for use only by the implementation (ie the compiler): 17.4.3.1.2 Global names Certain

Re: [Development] Hacking guide for Qt's SSL Support

2012-01-02 Thread Craig.Scott
On 02/01/2012, at 11:06 PM, Richard Moore wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Andreas Aardal Hanssen andr...@hanssen.name wrote: Hi Richard, looks really good! For Qt 4, the idea was to have several backends like you write here. Still we ended up with only one, and it's not really that

Re: [Development] Hacking guide for Qt's SSL Support

2012-01-02 Thread Craig.Scott
On 03/01/2012, at 11:27 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Tuesday, 3 de January de 2012 10.57.11, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: Unfortunately, OpenSSL is not part of the LSB, so if you want SSL support on linux and you want your application to be LSB compliant, you end up having to link in the

[Development] QMetaType templates

2011-12-22 Thread Craig.Scott
Given Jedrzej's recent post on QMetaType, it sounds like there are people looking at QMetaType in a bit more detail at the moment. That being the case, I'd appreciate a few more opinions on QTBUG-15313 which I believe was closed prematurely. The brief version is that I suggested that the

Re: [Development] (no subject)

2011-12-20 Thread Craig.Scott
On 21/12/2011, at 12:19 PM, mark.k...@nokia.com mark.k...@nokia.com wrote: Posting patches to the JIRA bugreporting system is contrary to the terms of use for that system. https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/secure/TermsAndConditions.html Don't do this. I know I'll probably be shot down

Re: [Development] (no subject)

2011-12-20 Thread Craig.Scott
On 21/12/2011, at 5:14 PM, Robin Burchell wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:57 AM, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: On 21/12/2011, at 12:19 PM, mark.k...@nokia.com mark.k...@nokia.com wrote: Posting patches to the JIRA bugreporting system is contrary to the terms of use for that system.

Re: [Development] Patches in JIRA (Was: (no subject))

2011-12-20 Thread Craig.Scott
On 21/12/2011, at 6:16 PM, Alan Alpert wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:52:54 ext craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: On 21/12/2011, at 5:14 PM, Robin Burchell wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:57 AM, craig.sc...@csiro.au wrote: On 21/12/2011, at 12:19 PM, mark.k...@nokia.com mark.k...@nokia.com

Re: [Development] Qt Commercial 4.8.0 release delta to LGPL version

2011-12-16 Thread Craig.Scott
On 16/12/2011, at 10:37 PM, David Faure wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2011 11:21:41 Turunen Tuukka wrote: So now there is total of 108 improvements and bug fixes available in Qt Commercial 4.8.0 that are not part of the LGPL release. While I understand the reasons, I want to state that

Re: [Development] How to create new Qt modules or tools

2011-12-12 Thread Craig.Scott
On 13/12/2011, at 12:09 AM, marius.storm-ol...@nokia.com marius.storm-ol...@nokia.com wrote: What is it that you require to upload the results to a cdash, and why wouldn't qmake be able to do so? I thought cmake simply ran cdash to upload the results, and certainly qmake can easily add

Re: [Development] Call for Volunteers: SSO-improvements for qt-project.org

2011-12-07 Thread Craig.Scott
On 07/12/2011, at 5:37 PM, Robin Burchell wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Jeff Mitchell q...@jefferai.org wrote: At Qt Contributor Day in SF I talked to Alexandra Leisse about MediaWiki. Specifically, she hates MediaWiki, and I suggested moving to Confluence, as it's a much, much,

Re: [Development] Platform / compiler support

2011-11-08 Thread Craig.Scott
On 08/11/2011, at 9:06 PM, João Abecasis wrote: Dr Craig Scott wrote: On 08/11/2011, at 1:31 AM, João Abecasis wrote: At the bare minimum, I think we should strive to support these compilers: - GCC 4.2 and up - MSVC 2008 and later - Clang (trunk) On the page above I also put in a

Re: [Development] Platform / compiler support

2011-11-08 Thread Craig.Scott
It occurred to me after my previous email that people may not be aware of what the LSB compilers do, so let me provide just a little bit of info to explain why they should be considered explicitly in addition to plain GCC compilers. In a nutshell, when you build your app with the LSB compilers,

Re: [Development] Platform / compiler support

2011-11-07 Thread Craig.Scott
On 08/11/2011, at 8:40 AM, Olivier Goffart wrote: On Monday 07 November 2011 19:52:37 Thiago Macieira wrote: On Monday, 7 de November de 2011 17:42:22 jan-arve.saet...@nokia.com wrote: Don't we need to agree on what criteria a platform needs to fulfill in order to be supported? The supported

Re: [Development] Platform / compiler support

2011-11-07 Thread Craig.Scott
On 08/11/2011, at 1:31 AM, João Abecasis wrote: At the bare minimum, I think we should strive to support these compilers: - GCC 4.2 and up - MSVC 2008 and later - Clang (trunk) On the page above I also put in a list of platforms, splitting them between Desktop, Embedded and

Re: [Development] Installing Qt5Config.cmake from the Qt repo?

2011-10-28 Thread Craig.Scott
On 29/10/2011, at 6:14 AM, lars.kn...@nokia.com lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: On 10/28/11 5:11 PM, ext Stephen Kelly stephen.ke...@kdab.com wrote: On Friday, October 28, 2011 16:24:08 Matt Williams wrote: On 28 October 2011 14:44, lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: I think that's reasonable