Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 07:09:33 CEST Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:04:38 PDT Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > That is exactly the same Chromium does. Except we already put the work > > into > > backporting the fixes. > > ALL of them? How quickly? > > Please make sur

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:04:38 PDT Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > That is exactly the same Chromium does. Except we already put the work into > backporting the fixes. ALL of them? How quickly? Please make sure that either you're releasing within two weeks of *every* CVE or that I can use an

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 00:59:39 CEST Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:03:17 PDT Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > > wrote: > > PDF libraries tend to be a common source of CVEs, so whichever library > > is used it should be certainly easy to update without the need o

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 13:03:17 PDT Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > PDF libraries tend to be a common source of CVEs, so whichever library > is used it should be certainly easy to update without the need of a > third party acting as a proxy. That is also the biggest drawback with

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 22:03:17 CEST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 09:39, Kai Köhne wrote: > [snip] > > > Qt PDF is so far a Qt labs module [1]. It allows Qt applications to > > render/view PDF's in QWidget based applications [2], and is built o

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
Hi! On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 09:39, Kai Köhne wrote: [snip] > > Qt PDF is so far a Qt labs module [1]. It allows Qt applications to > render/view PDF's in QWidget based applications [2], and is built on top of > PDFium. However, development has been stagnant, also because it is built on > top of

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 09:43:35 PDT Lars Knoll wrote: > > Because I don't want to see us undermine a nice open source project that > > is > > struggling to find contributors by promoting a worse alternative just > > because it can be sold. > > Poppler is not usable by any of Qt’s commercial cu

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Lars Knoll
On 13 Aug 2019, at 18:11, Thiago Macieira mailto:thiago.macie...@intel.com>> wrote: On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 02:20:04 PDT Shawn Rutledge wrote: Why are you biased towards Poppler being better? It’s older, yes, and it has had a Qt binding for a long time, so it has been easy to use in Qt widget

Re: [Development] Supported compilers for Qt 6

2019-08-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 00:50:48 PDT Friedemann Kleint wrote: > Hi, > > > > VC++ 2019 > > > Just for the record, this compiler still has a number of optimizer bugs, > see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-2875 . Unfortunately, despite those, it's still the best available. MSVC 201

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 02:20:04 PDT Shawn Rutledge wrote: > Why are you biased towards Poppler being better? It’s older, yes, and it > has had a Qt binding for a long time, so it has been easy to use in Qt > widget-based projects for a long time already. (I have experience doing > that; when

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
Shawn Rutledge wrote: > But PDFium has a company behind it, and I have heard that if one pays for > the commercial version, it has enough features to make a real PDF editing > application. I haven’t tried that yet; but it may turn out later that > this will give us access to a bigger feature set e

Re: [Development] How to document distros and compilers that Qt supports

2019-08-13 Thread Tor Arne Vestbø
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 11:39, Tony Sarajärvi wrote: > > MacOS is another good example where we claim to support the latest 3 > available at the time of release. But in 4 years of an LTS release we > actually don’t have a single one of those 3 left that were out when we > released 5.x.0. Are we

Re: [Development] Supported compilers for Qt 6

2019-08-13 Thread Tor Arne Vestbø
> On 12 Aug 2019, at 22:17, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> On Monday, 12 August 2019 00:17:58 PDT Lars Knoll wrote: >> As mentioned in my blog, it would be good to move forward with the C++ >> version we use for Qt 6 and ideally move it to C++17. > > Someone with iOS knowledge please address the

[Development] How to document distros and compilers that Qt supports

2019-08-13 Thread Tony Sarajärvi
Hi all! We've been going back to defining what "supported platform" means many times. This time however I want to loosen the reins a bit: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtdoc/+/269546 We stumble upon a problem where the distro itself isn't supported and / or its repositories are in wors

Re: [Development] Qt PDF as a new TP module for Qt 5.14

2019-08-13 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 13 Aug 2019, at 02:06, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Monday, 12 August 2019 15:10:47 PDT Kevin Kofler wrote: >> The existing implementation based on PDFium, on the other hand, provides us >> with an alternative implementation, which application developers may prefer >> for various reasons (

Re: [Development] Supported compilers for Qt 6

2019-08-13 Thread Friedemann Kleint
Hi, > VC++ 2019 Just for the record, this compiler still has a number of optimizer bugs, see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-2875 . Regards, Friedemann -- Friedemann Kleint The Qt Company GmbH ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-