[Development] fixing name of QNetworkAccessManager::createRequest

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Jan 9 19:08:42 CET 2012


On Monday, 9 de January de 2012 18.46.01, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
> Giuseppe D'Angelo <dangelog <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Being an API break, do you see any good motivation to justify it?
> 
> Yes, it can only be done in new major version. When if not now?

Never.

> > (I agree that the method name is wrong since it creates the reply, but
> > breaking software "just because" doesn't sound good to me either)
> 
> Well, having method createX which creates Y doesn't sound good to me either.

Indeed, but we can't change it if we want to maintain source compatibility. A 
source compatibility breakage must be justified and I don't think this one is.

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