[Development] Compatability break in QUrl in Qt 4.8

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 30 de January de 2012 16.53.41, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2012 16:35:04 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Monday, 30 de January de 2012 16.19.25, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > > This actually broke sounds notification in KDE
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291333
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288764
> > 
> > Read: "the sound notification in KDE was buggy before, now it simply
> > stopped working completely"
> 
> That's not true and unfair.
> 
> Making such a change and breaking applications just because you can is just
> too arogant

As I said in the other email: all bug fixes are changes in behaviour.

If applications depend on buggy behaviour, they are buggy. Fixing the 
behaviour means some applications will see side-effects. There's no way around 
it.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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