[Development] Binary incompatible changes to Qt 4.8

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 5/24/12 10:25 AM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

>On quinta-feira, 24 de maio de 2012 08.17.03, frederik.gladhorn at nokia.com
>wrote:
>> The problem I am seeing is that Qt prints for every Qt application this:
>> Qt: Untested Windows version 6.2 detected!
>
>Oh, that's sure going to get some people scratching their heads, "but I
>have 
>Windows 8!" :-)
>
>The warning needs to go away, at least, provided that Qt *is* tested on
>Windows 8. Whether we add the enum or not, that's a bit orthogonal.

Yes, the warning needs to be fixed.

But I don't have any problems with adding the new enum in a patch level
release. The only thing it can break is that your code won't compile
against 4.8.1 anymore if you use it. This is really one of these cases
where we should make a small exception to our rule of not adding any API
to a patch level release.

Please go ahead and back port the change to 4.8.

Cheers,
Lars

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