[Development] Updating third-parties

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Mar 21 16:01:38 CET 2013


On quinta-feira, 21 de março de 2013 12.03.05, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> Replying to myself: upgrading to 8.32 actually causes failures in
> QString tests -- an expected failure passes (line 1165 in
> tst_qstring.cpp), as case folding support was finally added to PCRE.
> Although distributions probably haven't started shipping 8.32 yet, I
> don't like that very much... ideas? I only see:
> 
> 1. skip the flaky data lines altogether
> 2. bump the minimum version required by Qt to 8.32 right now (and
> remove the expected failures from the tests)
> 3. make tst_qstring link to pcre and conditionally add the testlines
> depending on the PCRE version (!)

I'd say upgrade the bundled copy and update the test to match, but leave the 
minimum version unchanged. The bug is a corner-case.

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