Re: [Development] How to include Standard Library headers from Qt ones?

2017-04-15 Thread charleyb123 .
Marc: > I know Howard's ideas about hashing, and I agree with them. In Qt, we > largely > ignore the issue of hash collisions for a given type and just hash its > members, combining with boost::hash_combine, and hope for the best. As > such, > the problem described in Paragraph 5 of > https://iso

Re: [Development] Focusing bug fixes to 5.9 branch and patch releases during H1/17

2017-02-11 Thread charleyb123 .
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:59 AM, Tuukka Turunen wrote: > Short summary: The Qt Company has decided to focus development effort to 5.9 > and dev branches in order to reach the planned timeline for Qt 5.9 release > and make improvements in the CI system. , > In the CI system side we have major impr

Re: [Development] Use of Standard Library containers in Qt source code

2016-07-12 Thread charleyb123 .
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Marco Bubke wrote: > , Lets face it, the world is much bigger than Qt, and I think there > is much to gain if we integrate better with alien libraries. > My understanding is that most alien libraries are not binary-based (i.e., they are ternary or use other forms

Re: [Development] QtSingleApplication in Qt proper?

2016-06-20 Thread charleyb123
+1, I've found many good uses for QtSingleApplication, and think this is a good (highly practical) feature for "Qt-proper". --charley On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Kevin Funk wrote: > On Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2016 00:19:10 CEST Kevin Funk wrote: > > (snip) > > > > Question: > > Is there a

Re: [Development] [Releasing] HEADS UP: Updates to Qt 5.7 (and Qt 5.8) tool versions

2016-03-19 Thread charleyb123 .
> > Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 to Windows 10 > > Please let’s keep in mind that Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 is coming out, > I don’t think that it will be ready for Qt 5.7, but we should be prepared > for Qt 5.8 indeed. > > Regards, > Diego > +1 --charley

Re: [Development] Dropping VS 2012 in Qt 5.7

2016-02-25 Thread charleyb123 .
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > Just starting a new thread to get the attention of those that may have > missed > it in the other platform. > > The proposal is to drop VS 2012 support in Qt 5.7 already, instead of > supporting it in 5.7 only and dropping in 5.8. > > The

[Development] CppNow Call For Submissions 2016

2016-01-26 Thread charleyb123 .
The Call For Submissions for the CppNow conference (May 9-14, 2016) in Aspen, CO will close this Friday (Fri-29-Jan). This is an intimate C++ conference with great minds, including many Qt users, and past speakers have come from the Qt community. Consider attending, and/or submitting a talk. htt

Re: [Development] What kind of airplane we want to build?

2016-01-23 Thread charleyb123 .
Thiago sayeth: > , > But I have no plans on extending QAtomicInteger and QAtomicPointer further. > There are a couple of missing features that will probably never be > implemented: > > * std::memory_order_consume and std::memory_order_cst > * GCC's extension for hidden lock elision > * compare_

Re: [Development] What kind of airplane we want to build?

2016-01-20 Thread charleyb123 .
Thiago sayeth: > So no, I don't think we risk becoming irrelevant against other airplane > makers > anytime soon. Our competitor are those transatlantic heavyweight ships > (HTML5). > , LOL!!! That's actually a very good point (in addition to the fact that I really did Laugh-Out-Loud). C++ is

Re: [Development] Qt Virtual Keyboard (New KDE Free Qt Foundation Agreement and Changes)

2016-01-19 Thread charleyb123 .
+1 On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:32 AM, Knoll Lars wrote: > +1 and +1 from me as well :) > > Cheers, > Lars > > > > > On 19/01/16 13:16, "Development on behalf of Marc Mutz" < > development-boun...@qt-project.org on behalf of marc.m...@kdab.com> wrote: > > >On Tuesday 19 January 2016 08:22:54 Viiron

Re: [Development] Question about QCoreApplicationData::*_libpaths

2016-01-15 Thread charleyb123 .
Apologies for "hijacking" the thread, but two points were raised that IMHO would be helpful if they were answered directly: (1) Future of Qt binary compatibility (2) Use of std:: containers (especially in context of (1)). We can take this to another thread as-needed. However, quick "recap": ===

Re: [Development] API Change in QtRemoteObjects

2016-01-02 Thread charleyb123 .
Hi, Brett-- IMHO, this is a very good change. The library will be easier to use, and more accessible from QML. Also, now is probably the time to make such an API change. I'm watching this effort with great interest -- thanks for all your hard work. --charley On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:51 AM,

Re: [Development] Qt 5.5.1 'rc' available

2015-10-09 Thread charleyb123 .
> > On Wednesday 23 September 2015 08:37:54 Heikkinen Jani wrote: > > We are targeting to release Qt 5.5.1 as soon as possible, most probably > > during next week. > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Gerhard Scheikl wrote: > Hi > > Could you please give us a new estimate? > Unfortunately, we rely

[Development] MSVC2015 and Qt5.5 -- dot release plans?

2015-07-03 Thread charleyb123 .
Microsoft announced MSVS2015 will be released on July 20: http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-sets-release-date-for-visual-studio-2015/ Those of us that have been following the MS compiler know that the MSVC2015 is a particularly strong compiler, making up for lots of "lost-ground" in supporti

Re: [Development] Qt LTS & C++11 plans (CopperSpice)

2015-07-03 Thread charleyb123 .
> > > Bo Thorsen sayeth: > This answer is going to be one big IMHO. > > Anything that stops people from throwing shared pointers all over the > code is A Good Thing. As someone once said: Shared pointers are a > solution in search of a problem. > > Scoped pointers are fine, but shared pointers i

Re: [Development] Qt LTS & C++11 plans (CopperSpice)

2015-07-01 Thread charleyb123 .
> > > For example, with moc removed we support template classes that inherit> > > from QObject. > > Wow. I would (almost) kill for having that feature in Qt! > > You can work around it quite easily. What doesn’t work is adding new > signals / slots inside a template class. So just add a base class

Re: [Development] QtRemoteObjects (was Replicant)

2014-10-26 Thread charleyb123 .
> > Sayeth Simon: > > On the other hand I think it is critical for Qt's success to also support > use- > > cases that leave our little universe (of Qt). And that means either > building > > something yourself and convincing others to adopt it or adopt a > > technology/approach that already has exis

[Development] CppCon Just Ended (next year will be 20-25 Sep 2015)

2014-09-14 Thread charleyb123 .
Just got back from CppCon (http://cppcon.org/), WOW what a great conference for C++. Apologies for cross-post qt-interest and qt-dev, but wanted to be sure both groups saw the announcement for next year (20-25 Sep-2015). WOW AGAIN for a great conference. Really heavy-hitters there, with informat

[Development] Qt6, Qt7 roadmap?

2014-08-09 Thread charleyb123 .
Just a silly question related to the Qt roadmap (I don't want to distract this weekend's Qt5.4 freeze-activity): Qt6 (and even Qt7) has been mentioned on this list in the past year, and I was curious if there were a "30,000-mile-high-view" of what might be "on-deck" for consideration. A web-searc

Re: [Development] Request for a sandbox area: Replicant

2014-06-01 Thread charleyb123 .
> > This cross process stuff is starting to feel like 1996 and > remote procedure RPC calls, now using QT signals and slots. "" > again for effect. > > One could review the history of microsoft and the fine RPC mechanisms > that turned out to be mostly unusable, or maybe just unused. > > Keep the o

Re: [Development] Request for a sandbox area: Replicant

2014-05-31 Thread charleyb123 .
(I'm just jumping in here...) Bret spaketh: > In trying to address your points, I fear it sounds like I think D-Bus is > bad. That's not > what I'm trying to say. I'm saying D-Bus/QtDBus didn't work *for my > use-case*. > So I created something that worked better *for my use-case*. > > There

Re: [Development] Question about Qt's future

2014-04-28 Thread charleyb123 .
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Hartmann Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > gluing together C++ and Java Script is currently not always that easy. > The solution I propose is the option to write C++ code in the exact same > way you currently write Java Script code. > This means every QML context/component c

Re: [Development] QtQml value types

2014-04-25 Thread charleyb123 .
> > > > >>> While your proposed approach is rather clean, it carries one drawback, > >>> which is the lack of type information, with all its consequences. > PRO: *- Can data-clean/input-validate on either C++ or QML side, can add more custom validators in different places *- ?More fine-grain

Re: [Development] Question about Qt's future

2014-04-21 Thread charleyb123 .
I'm not Roland (talking about "value-types"), but I completely agree with his comments on why they are important (we have that issue also). But, "jumping-in", ... , > >> - Our application has a huge framework of value classes. They cannot > (or > > >> at least it does not make sense to) derive f

Re: [Development] Question about Qt's future

2014-04-21 Thread charleyb123 .
Roland sayeth: > , I liked the design to split business logic into > C++ and UI design into QML and I still like it, but I came across > several blocking issues (some of them are only valid for our > application, some of them are general): > > - Our application has a huge framework of value classe