On Friday 18 November 2016 22:12:44 Thiago Macieira wrote: > Em sexta-feira, 18 de novembro de 2016, às 20:37:26 PST, Marc Mutz escreveu: > > There's no reason for Qt to extend its BC guarantees to other libraries. > > STL, GSL, Boost, std::exception, you name it. They are outside of Qt's > > realm and therefore do not fall under the Qt BC rules. > > Which is the reason we can't accept them in our ABI. The rules are > incompatible.
If you extend this argument to its logical conclusion, Qt should be BC between debug and releases on MSVC. Many libraries manage. Gpgme, e.g. Why doesn't Qt? You see, that argument is completely empty. The STL is forbidden because people are uncomfortable with it, not because it causes BiC. The debug/release stuff on MSVC is allowed to be BiC because people have come to accept it as reality. Neither one is any more right or wrong inherently, than the other. Thanks, Marc -- Marc Mutz <marc.m...@kdab.com> | Senior Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company Tel: +49-30-521325470 KDAB - The Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
