Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Seydl
The question is what exactly do you mean with canceling. I was already in the same place needing a thread to stop in a controlled fashion, but issuing ie a real phtread_cancel is tricky as the kernel may not support thread canceling and stack unwinding in C++ combined with it leads to quite weird s

Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API

2013-02-26 Thread Laszlo Papp
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Joseph Crowell wrote: > I have threads that live for the full life of my application but telling > them to stop on application shut down is painful. What a coincidence. I have just had the same scenario. :-) Laszlo ___

Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API

2013-02-26 Thread Joseph Crowell
On 2/27/2013 2:12 AM, BRM wrote: >> From: Thiago Macieira >> To: development@qt-project.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:46 AM >> Subject: Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API >> >> On terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2013 07.03.37, BRM wrote: >>> Personally, I can

Re: [Development] [Releasing] Including QTimeZone in Qt 5.1

2013-02-26 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2013 22.42.31, John Layt wrote: > On Wednesday 20 Feb 2013 16:16:55 Thiago Macieira wrote: > > For 12 commits, I'd just submit straight to dev. > > Would you prefer it squashed to one big commit, or keep the platform > backends separate commits? I prefer separate

Re: [Development] [Releasing] Including QTimeZone in Qt 5.1

2013-02-26 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 20 Feb 2013 16:16:55 Thiago Macieira wrote: > For 12 commits, I'd just submit straight to dev. Would you prefer it squashed to one big commit, or keep the platform backends separate commits? Except as noted below all other suggested changes are being made. > - GenericTime and Sta

Re: [Development] Qt 4.6.5 and 4.7.6 release candidates available

2013-02-26 Thread Olivier Goffart
On Tuesday 26 February 2013 10:22:27 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On domingo, 24 de fevereiro de 2013 09.34.43, Thiago Macieira wrote: > The backport of 8afc6773067bb878020c29b3bebfe8662e3fbfdd (as > 2fd21f04d23d5dd87ca0f6db238ae268492f5528) to add support for signed char as > a metatype is dubious. I

Re: [Development] Qt 5.1 feature set and freeze date

2013-02-26 Thread Jake Petroules
Don't forget Qt Win Extras On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Thomas McGuire wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 25 February 2013 17:11:53 Pasion Jerome wrote: > > > > I would like to start the feature freeze Qt 5.1 middle of March. [..] > > > > > > > > Quite a bit of new functionality has made it into the de

Re: [Development] Qt 4.6.5 and 4.7.6 release candidates available

2013-02-26 Thread Thiago Macieira
On domingo, 24 de fevereiro de 2013 09.34.43, Thiago Macieira wrote: > However, I can't be sure because the diff between the two branches is > unreviewable, since every header is modified. Someone needs to produce a > clean diff we can review and post to the list. Tuukka told me in an email prob

Re: [Development] QTBUG-29082 and Next Releases

2013-02-26 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2013 11.54.31, David Narvaez wrote: > Hi, > > As I come to understand the branch workflow a bit better, I think I > messed up the information in QTBUG-29082 when closing the bug. Since > it was committed to stable, it means it won't be available in the next > patc

[Development] QTBUG-29082 and Next Releases

2013-02-26 Thread David Narvaez
Hi, As I come to understand the branch workflow a bit better, I think I messed up the information in QTBUG-29082 when closing the bug. Since it was committed to stable, it means it won't be available in the next patch release, right? Should it be made available in the next patch releases in 5 and

Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API

2013-02-26 Thread BRM
> From: Thiago Macieira > To: development@qt-project.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:46 AM > Subject: Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API > > On terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2013 07.03.37, BRM wrote: >> Personally, I can easily seem myself replacing my current

Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API

2013-02-26 Thread Иван Комиссаров
My 2 cents. I would like to see something similar to Qt Creator's functions implemented in "runextensions.h" in QtConcurrent module itself - methods that allows to manipulate future using QFutureInterface (progress notification, partial results). Anyway, i wasn't able to find Qt Concurrent prob

Re: [Development] what does "syncqt" do?

2013-02-26 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2013 16.33.07, haithem rahmani wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that the "syncqt" script is installed in the bin directory > containing the "qmake" "moc" ...,while it says in one of its comment > > # > # Synchronizes Qt header files - internal development tool. > #

Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API

2013-02-26 Thread Thiago Macieira
On terça-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2013 07.03.37, BRM wrote: > Personally, I can easily seem myself replacing my current QThread usages > with this functionality; but I'd want to be able to receive both > start/finished signals (for logging purposes) and be able to interact with > the QThread objec

[Development] what does "syncqt" do?

2013-02-26 Thread haithem rahmani
Hi all, I noticed that the "syncqt" script is installed in the bin directory containing the "qmake" "moc" ...,while it says in one of its comment # # Synchronizes Qt header files - internal development tool. # can someone explain to me what does the "syncqt" script do? is it mandatory to compi

Re: [Development] Evolving Qt's multithreading API

2013-02-26 Thread BRM
I've been sitting silent on this, but I am quite in favor of having an easy to understand approach to using QThreads, which the proposal in this thread seems to be. > From: Thiago Macieira > To: development@qt-project.org > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: [Development]

Re: [Development] Qt 5.1 feature set and freeze date

2013-02-26 Thread Thomas McGuire
Hi, On Monday 25 February 2013 17:11:53 Pasion Jerome wrote: > > > I would like to start the feature freeze Qt 5.1 middle of March. [..] > > > > > > Quite a bit of new functionality has made it into the dev branch, but > > > I'd also like to add a few of the modules left out in 5.0 to the > > > r