[Development] Qt 5 feature freeze

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 1/5/12 12:28 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>On Thursday, 5 de January de 2012 10.04.38, lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
>> This means that if you have something that you think needs to be done
>> before the feature freeze (or is a feature that you need to get in as an
>> exception later on), please create a JIRA task for it and make it a sub
>> task of QTBUG-20885. It would be great if you could all spend some
>>minutes
>> this week to do this so that we have a decent overview early next week.
>
>I've added the one for the new QUrl, which definitely needs to be in 5.0
>or not 
>at all
>	https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-23469
>
>But as I was going to do the next, I realised that it doesn't need to be
>in 
>5.0, it would just be nice. They are:
>
> - new Q_GLOBAL_STATIC: since the current API is not public, breaking it
>in 
>future releases is acceptable.

Agree, it's not a hard requirement.
>
> - new atomics: no change in API, it's source compatible and all the
>functions 
>are inline. It does however change the mangling for "QBasicAtomicInt", so
>any 
>functions that take that as a parameter, return that or have it in their
>template parameters would break BC.

Add this one, as it should go in, but in the worst case we can do it later.

Cheers,
Lars


>
>Do you want me to add them too?
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