Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-09 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 02 November 2013 23:25:57 peter green wrote: [snip] > Finally has there been any discussion with other linux distros. This is > obviously something that impacts the ABI in a big way so ideally it's > not something where we want different distros doing different things. I have asked in

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-09 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 09 November 2013 20:33:02 Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > > Meyer wrote: > > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from > > beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from floa

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-09 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from > beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double > on arm*. Hi, I just came across an example of this so I tho

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On Saturday 09 November 2013 10:22:44 Philipp Kern wrote: > What is your plan to support partial upgrades? BinNMUs can require new Qt > versions to be installed, but Qt can be upgraded independently to the newer > version, causing the rdepends to crash. This can potentially be solved by > Breaks, b

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-09 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:46:27PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > - If we decide to do the change in Qt5, it will be *without* soname bump. > Yes, > I know many of you will think of this as **ugly**, but so far means 3 binNMUs > per arch. Now if this is not acceptable, then

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thursday 07 November 2013 18:55:31 Loïc Minier wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > - We don't know yet what other distros are going to do. > > IMO we shouldn't have distro-specific patching for this kind of stuff; > it seems to commonly impact apps (whi

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > - We don't know yet what other distros are going to do. IMO we shouldn't have distro-specific patching for this kind of stuff; it seems to commonly impact apps (which should be using qreal instead of assuming qreal is double) way t

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Thursday 07 November 2013 18:18:18 you wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from > > beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to > > double on arm*. > > > > We

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-07 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from > beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double > on > arm*. > > We have the option to keep some archs in float by passing

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-06 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Wednesday 06 November 2013 17:40:11 Pino Toscano wrote: > In data sabato 2 novembre 2013 15:29:05, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez > > Meyer ha scritto: > > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not > > from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from >

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-06 Thread Pino Toscano
In data sabato 2 novembre 2013 15:29:05, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer ha scritto: > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not > from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from > float to double on arm*. Did upstream bump the SONAME of QtCore5 an

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-05 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Note: readding p-k-t@ and debian-ports@... On Tuesday 05 November 2013 19:22:30 peter green wrote: > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > I really don't understand where Canonical gets in here. > > If qreal is float on armhf and key software fails in that configuration > then canonical

Fwd: Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-05 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm* Date: Tuesday 05 November 2013, 19:22:30 From: peter green To: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer , ARM Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > I really don't understa

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-04 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Monday 04 November 2013 17:57:35 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Hello, > > Simple question: what is the reason for the change? This is all I know: > Also, I seem to remember Thiago discussing about this on qt-interest but I > don't have time to

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-04 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, Simple question: what is the reason for the change? Also, I seem to remember Thiago discussing about this on qt-interest but I don't have time to search just now. On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez < perezme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-04 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: [snip] > We have the option to keep some archs in float by passing a compilation > parameter. I've done so for armel and sh4, so only armhf will switch to > double. Just for the record, I din't considered the switch

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-04 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:29:05 -0300 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not > from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from > float to double on arm*. > > We have the option to keep some archs in float b

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-03 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Note: adding back debian-arm@..., please tell me if it's not necessary. On Saturday 02 November 2013 23:25:57 peter green wrote: > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > Any feedback will be kindly appreciated. > > I've always thought there is something fundamentally wrong. > > What is q

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-03 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 02 November 2013 17:09:30 Scott Kitterman wrote: [snip] > Doesn't this break binary compatibility? Yes it does. Upstream agreed to do so for Qt5. > Did you discuss this with upstream already? If we find that it might be a good idea, yes, I would definitely get upstream ACK's befor

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread peter green
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: Any feedback will be kindly appreciated. I've always thought there is something fundamentally wrong. What is qreal supposed to be used for? If it's supposed to be used for things where float would be adequate then shouldn't it be float on all plat

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
"Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer" wrote: >Note: only for pkg-kde-talk. > >On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez >Meyer >wrote: >> Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not >from >> beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qre

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from > beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double > on arm*. I forgot to mention: please keep pkg-kde-talk at l

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:30:53 you wrote: [snip] > There's still the chance of doing **quite a bit** of work and backporting > the changes to Qt4 and make qreal a double on armhf too. But this means a > **big** transition for armhf would be needed, but on the other hand > pkg-kde-tools' sym

Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Note: only for pkg-kde-talk. On Saturday 02 November 2013 15:29:05 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from > beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double > on arm*. > > We have the opti

Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*

2013-11-02 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! Starting from Qt 5.2.0 (most probably from rc1 and definitely not from beta1 currently in experimental) Qt5 will switch qreal from float to double on arm*. We have the option to keep some archs in float by passing a compilation parameter. I've done so for armel and sh4, so only armhf will s