> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 at 11:14 AM > From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macie...@intel.com> > To: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Interest] Current QDataStream format documentation? > > On sexta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2016 17:05:26 PDT Jason H wrote: > > > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:12 PM > > > From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macie...@intel.com> > > > To: interest@qt-project.org > > > Subject: Re: [Interest] Current QDataStream format documentation? > > > > > > On sexta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2016 03:01:40 PDT Jason H wrote: > > > > The documentation should be current. Maintaining documentation is part > > > > os > > > > selling the toolkit. > > > > > > The maintainer of QDataStream (me) disagrees. I don't like the versioning > > > support in the first place, since it's an all-or-nothing. > > > > So the expectation is that I dig through [thousands, hundreds, dozens?] of > > commits to find out what changed? I wouldn't even know where to start. > > The expectation is that you read QDataStream with QDataStream. You don't need > to know what it writes, only that it can read what it writes.
Which is great until it's writing to another device that does not implement Qt, because it's an Arduino or similar. I don't think it's an unusual scenario that you're using QDataStream to exchange data to a device that does not implement Qt. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
