[Development] Signals/slots for class templates (Was: Evolving Qt's multithreading API)

[Knoll Lars]

On 3/17/13 5:21 PM, "Olivier Goffart" <olivier at woboq.com> wrote:

>On Sunday 17 March 2013 08:13:21 Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On domingo, 17 de março de 2013 11.13.01, Olivier Goffart wrote:
>> > On Sunday 10 March 2013 10:09:24 Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> > > On domingo, 10 de março de 2013 23.54.42, Sze Howe Koh wrote:
>> > > > What's holding us back? What does "installing the moc file" mean?
>> > > 
>> > > You install the output from moc.
>> > 
>> > Yes. That is a build system issue which is not difficult to solve.
>> > 
>> > And it's only if the said QObject is in a header file which also
>>needs to
>> > be installed, and that you do not rely on extern template.
>> 
>> Are you recommending that people use this feature only for non-public
>> classes?
>
>I'm saying that it can be used first with non-public classes before we
>change 
>the build system to install the needed generated files.

We're about to start the 5.1 process (ie. branch into stable) etc, and the
feature is not blocking anything critical for the release. So I'd say give
it some time and let's get it in properly for 5.2.

Cheers,
Lars