Re: [Development] Making Binary Incompatible Changes after Qt 6.0

2020-12-07 Thread André Somers
Hi, On 07-12-2020 10:24, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: Hi, Given the scale of Qt 6.0 it’s perhaps no surprise that in spite of careful reviews, we are seeing the first API issues popping up, fixing of which would require a breakage of binary compatibility. For example: https://bugreports.qt.io/br

Re: [Development] Qt 6 co-installability with Qt 5

2020-12-07 Thread Joerg Bornemann
On 10/27/20 5:34 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: Have we fixed it? The discussion apparently petered out as everytime this came up - or maybe I just missed that we now have consensus on how to name things and where to put stuff? Kai created https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-89170 to track t

Re: [Development] Making Binary Incompatible Changes after Qt 6.0

2020-12-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday, 7 December 2020 01:24:22 PST Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > If we decide here to break BC before 6.1 because the available workarounds > [1] are not applicable or not something we want to live with until Qt 7, > then we might just as well go “all in” with such changes (as long as we > mainta

[Development] Making Binary Incompatible Changes after Qt 6.0

2020-12-07 Thread Volker Hilsheimer
Hi, Given the scale of Qt 6.0 it’s perhaps no surprise that in spite of careful reviews, we are seeing the first API issues popping up, fixing of which would require a breakage of binary compatibility. For example: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-87465 I’ve now created an EPIC type JIRA