[Development] Feature defines in Qt 5?

[Olivier Goffart]

On Monday 12 December 2011 15:21:40 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Is there any plan to keep or remove the defines in features.txt in Qt 5?
> (eg, QT_NO_SQL, QT_NO_DATESTRING etc)
> 
> A colleague told me about talk of removing all the ifdefs, but he thought
> he'd convinced whoever it was he was talking to that the stuff should be
> kept.
> 
> Is it something that would need to be modularised?


There is the feature that are disabled in the boostrapping phase. Thos might 
stay.

For the other ones: The policy in Qt 4 was that we do not maintain them, but 
we leave them there (as they do not hurt in most cases) and accept patches 
that fix them.
I don't see why we should change that.