[Development] Updating third-parties

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 21 March 2013 16:01, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

And have the test fail if a system-wide 8.30 / 8.31 is picked? Does
anyone know the situation on the CI machines? (Ubuntu ships 8.30 with
12.10, CI should use 12.04, so we should be fine...)

-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo