16.01.2018, 19:18, "Uwe Rathmann" <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:47:57 +0100, Olivier Goffart wrote: > >> Just change your code to use "= QString()", no #ifdef necessary. > > The "just change" introduces a binary incompatibility - right ? > > Please be aware, that Qwt is part of almost any Linux distro - according > to sourceforge it has more than 1000 additional downloads every week > since many years. > > All distro maintainers would not only have to upgrade the Qwt packages, > but also all packages depending on it - users would have to rebuild.
However, it seems like amount of reverse dependencies of Qwt is rather moderate, e.g. in Ubuntu I see libqwt6:i386 zygrib simon qsapecng qgis nlkt libqwt-dev libqgis-gui2.0.1 > > Considering the strict compatibility rules you have for Qt you will > understand, that this is nothing I would like to do easily. > > But could you please comment on why this change is an improvement - > beyond getting rid of 3-4 lines in qstring.h ? Because having redundancies in API is bad maybe? > > Thanks, > Uwe > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
