Re: [Development] New Qt example development guideline and revamping examples

2023-01-18 Thread Rui Oliveira
Hello, I'd like to point to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-100100 where you can read: "Ah, those examples are in the qtdoc repository, where nobody looks at them..." "Back when we worked on QTBUG-98130, we forgot to add the examples in qtdoc to the list." Are these going to receive

Re: [Development] Proposal: move Qt provisioning scripts and 3rd party components into a dedicated repo

2022-07-14 Thread Rui Oliveira
Just to add to the discussion, Qt is clearly adopting Conan as a first-class "service" [1]. Conan users may know that the "canonical" repos [2] have a lot of effort put in them to remove exactly this kind of scenarios where libraries ship their vendored dependencies. Qt is an example of this [

Re: [Development] Updating x86 SIMD support in Qt

2022-01-24 Thread Rui Oliveira
Hey, Since Qt has its own Conan/Artifactory setup , maybe it would be viable to have some different SIMD setups available as options for the Qt package? This would require Conan as a dependency, of course. On most systems that

Re: [Development] Renamed (again): Qt licensing shenanigans (again)

2021-05-21 Thread Rui Oliveira
Every conversation ends up in what is already the C++ subject of the year :D I've been vocally critical of what has happened, same as everybody else, even though I'm a mere passive observer, for now... But lemme say some things: I agree with Jason: Doing the "no LTS for FOSS" at the moment of

Re: [Development] Commercial LTS Qt 5.15.4 released

2021-05-13 Thread Rui Oliveira
Wouldn't make releases GLP/commercial instead of commercial only solve all the issues? Both of maintainers, and KDE. Drop the "L" for 12 months. It would seem a compromise solution for me. Anyhow, indeed, for me, the big problem was the awkward situation where Qt 6 is basically unusable and FO