Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Jean-Michaël Celerier
There are quite a bunch of people using it out there : https://github.com/search?l=C%2B%2B&q=QX11Info+NOT+tst_QX11Info+NOT+QT_END_LICENSE&type=Code --- Jean-Michaël Celerier http://www.jcelerier.name On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:41 AM Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 September 2018

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 10:09:53 PDT Tor Arne Vestbø wrote: > If they do, does the list say anything about whether or not those APIs have > modern replacements in Qt or other ways to do the same? There's exactly one class in QtX11Extras: QX11Info. http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qx11info.html I cou

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Tor Arne Vestbø
> On 12 Sep 2018, at 18:52, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: > > El miércoles, 12 de septiembre de 2018 12:38:03 -03 Thiago Macieira escribió: >> On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 01:44:36 PDT Gatis Paeglis wrote: With the proposed solution of making platform plugins libraries wi

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El miércoles, 12 de septiembre de 2018 12:38:03 -03 Thiago Macieira escribió: > On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 01:44:36 PDT Gatis Paeglis wrote: > > > With the proposed solution of making platform plugins libraries with > > > their > > > own private headers, we can have these apis closer to the pl

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 01:44:36 PDT Gatis Paeglis wrote: > > With the proposed solution of making platform plugins libraries with their > > own private headers, we can have these apis closer to the platform code, > > and without lots of plumbing and indirection. I think the qtmacextras > >

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Edward Welbourne
Tor Arne Vestbø (12 September 2018 10:25) >> I think the qtmacextras module should be maintained by the same >> [maintainer] as macOS, Morten. On 12 Sep 2018, at 11:02, Edward Welbourne wrote: > That would depend on - Morten: are you willing to take it on ? > Morten Sørvig (12 September 2018 12:

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Tor Arne Vestbø
> On 12 Sep 2018, at 12:37, Tor Arne Vestbø wrote: >> >> Use of passive voice - "should be" - perhaps a better plan would be to >> actively submit the patches to make it happen, or file a task in Jira >> for it. Even if there's no release branch ready for them, having >> patches on dev gives re

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Tor Arne Vestbø
On 12 Sep 2018, at 11:02, Edward Welbourne wrote: >> With the proposed solution of making platform plugins libraries with >> their own private headers, we can have these apis closer to the >> platform code, and without lots of plumbing and indirection. > > Sounds promising. I don’t think I’ve wr

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Morten Sørvig
> On 12 Sep 2018, at 11:02, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > Tor Arne Vestbø (12 September 2018 10:25) >> I think the qtmacextras module should be maintained by the same >> [maintainer] as macOS, Morten. > > That would depend on - Morten: are you willing to take it on ? To be honest I assumed that

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Edward Welbourne
Tor Arne Vestbø (12 September 2018 10:25) > I think the qtmacextras module should be maintained by the same > [maintainer] as macOS, Morten. That would depend on - Morten: are you willing to take it on ? As long as Tor Arne and Morten are watching the module, Samuel could gain some experience as

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Gatis Paeglis
> With the proposed solution of making platform plugins libraries with their > own private headers, we can have these apis closer to the platform code, and > without lots of plumbing and indirection. > I think the qtmacextras module in particular should be deprecated ASAP, and > will strongly op

Re: [Development] Orphan modules

2018-09-12 Thread Tor Arne Vestbø
Hey, Nothing against your competence Samuel, but I think the qtmacextras module should be maintained by the same maintained as macOS, Morten. I also think that the extras modules have a risk of ending up as dumping grounds for platform specific APIs we never really got around to integrating wi