Re: [Development] Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January

2021-01-07 Thread Max Paperno
On 1/6/2021 6:10 AM, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: Hi Max and Adam, What can do better to avoid such regressions from making it into a release, or preferably into the code, in the first place? Nobody, not even the Qt Company management :P *wants* to release crappy quality on time. What we know abo

Re: [Development] Commercial-only LTS phase starts: Closing the 5.15 branch(es) on 5th January

2021-01-05 Thread Max Paperno
On 1/5/2021 1:02 PM, Adam Light wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 7:56 AM Volker Hilsheimer mailto:volker.hilshei...@qt.io>> wrote: Apart from that: is Qt 5.15.2 really so broken that people can’t use it without getting more patches? I can't speak to 5.15 as we decided not to upgrade s

Re: [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6

2020-06-12 Thread Max Paperno
I would restate my objection by pointing out again [1] that Win 7 is still the 2nd most popular desktop OS in the world, with 3x more users than all MacOS versions combined. Never mind Linux, which is on par with Win XP users (the previous "known good" Windows version prior to 7). Any softwar

Re: [Development] GitHub Pull requests

2020-03-11 Thread Max Paperno
Just wanted to chime in as a "could be" Qt dev. Lowering the barrier to entry by allowing use of familiar tools could be a benefit IF you're looking for more contributions. I'm sure there's effort involved to allow this, and maybe it's not practical in the end, but perhaps worth considering/loo

Re: [Development] Signal naming convention

2020-02-28 Thread Max Paperno
On 2/28/2020 2:37 PM, Max Paperno wrote: I humbly suggest, in general, that a signal name could be prefixed with "sig", "sig_", "signal" or "signal_".  "sigEmptied()" doesn't look horrible IMHO, and should work semantically with any ve

Re: [Development] Signal naming convention (was: A modest proposal: disable lower-case keywords...)

2020-02-28 Thread Max Paperno
I humbly suggest, in general, that a signal name could be prefixed with "sig", "sig_", "signal" or "signal_". "sigEmptied()" doesn't look horrible IMHO, and should work semantically with any verb. Using prefixes to signify meaning already has some precedence in C/C++ world as well. And lastl