[Development] Proposal - QtSerialPort graduation from the Playground

[Denis Shienkov]

>A cross platform compatible API for the serial port is a useful thing,
>but is there a good reason for limiting it to Qt applications ?

Why do you think that this is a limitation?

This is just a separate, cross-platform implementation of the serial port, taking into account the Qt-specific, 
and designed specifically for Qt, like as QAbstractSocket, QFile and so forth... 

So, we are not saying that QAbstractSocket and QFile restricts/limiting use !?

PS: For example, boost also has its own implementation of ...

PS2: or I misunderstood your question?


Best regards,
Denis


11.01.2013, 11:41, "Uwe Rathmann" <Uwe.Rathmann at tigertal.de>:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:18:40 +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote:
>
>>  Another try: can we reiterate this question for 5.1?
>
> Several years ago I was asked if I would accept the ( at that time
> orphaned ) qextserialport project as module of Qwt.
>
> I decided not to do so because its code was more or less unrelated to Qt
> - beside a couple of lines building an QIODevice.
>
> A cross platform compatible API for the serial port is a useful thing,
> but is there a good reason for limiting it to Qt applications ?
>
> Uwe
>
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