On Friday 23 September 2016 17:41:30 Jason H wrote: > > 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.
Or the have two devices are both based on Qt, but different versions. As Roland said on the other thread, sometimes you are locked to older versions because of certification or other reasons that make it impossible to change the software running. You just can not always switch to the latest fanciest Qt version. I still support system that fly in helicopters developed 12 years ago and are based on Qt 3.3.3. They talk via satellite with a server on the ground and the customer pay literally per bytes transferred. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
