[Development] Proposal - QtSerialPort graduation from the Playground

[Thiago A. Corrêa]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Thiago A. Corrêa <thiago.correa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> You mean filling the Combo Box with available rates right? (
>> ui->rateBox->addItem(QLatin1String("9600"), SerialPort::Rate9600); )
>> I would just fill in the numbers in the second argument of addItem.
>> Other than maybe getting a compiler error in case of a typo, there
>> isn't much gain in the enums themselfs.
>
>
> That is a nice gain in my opinion to avoid the unintentional bugs thay may
> take some time to debug (wrong setting, data not going through properly
> towards the modem, perhaps causing random issues and so forth).
>
[..]
>
> I would assume that people prefer enumeration to raw values when possible. I

I agree completly. I was just not too convinced in this particular
case, but there is a choice either way which is good.

It's interesting that .Net have added Baud230400 while we have both
Rate1200 and Rate2400 that they left out.

In my use cases I usually have to store the port configuration in some
configuration file, and the conversion between the 3rdparty library
enuns (which I shouldn't assume a value for) and my serialized
representation is boring.