[Development] Bluetooth and NFC vs Reference Platforms

[Michael Zanetti]

On Monday 30 September 2013 13:09:53 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 30 de setembro de 2013 19:39:53, Knoll Lars wrote:
> > >As far as I know from my colleague, it misses some necessary API -- at
> > >least the connection state changes notification and device disappearing
> > >notification.
> > >We could prepare some patches during the next week or two, though
> > >QtBluetooth probably needs few more revisions and API changes/fixes...but
> > >we can't do too much in case of API freeze, you know...
> > 
> > A missing feature is for me not enough reason to delay the release of a
> > module. There's always more features we could add to a module. It's also
> > important to get something out and into the hands of people.
> > 
> > Feature freeze doesn't imply a full API freeze. We have the alpha/beta
> > period exactly for finding issues and fixing them. A missing signal is
> > something we can fix if required.
> 
> Right.
> 
> However, if there are major defects in the API, they need to be voiced now.
> Like Lars said before, this API isn't new, so people have had the time to
> look at it.
> 
> If there are major problems, I expect that they are already known.
> Therefore, post them.

After having worked quite a bit with the Bluetooth API I wouldn't say it has 
major defects any more.

This wasn't the case with NFC last time I worked with. But afaik there were 
some change lately addressing the things I found troublesome.

Br,
Michael