[Development] Bluetooth and NFC vs Reference Platforms

[Knoll Lars]

On 9/30/13 9:26 PM, "Konstantin Ritt" <ritt.ks at gmail.com> 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.

Cheers,
Lars

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>Konstantin
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>Regards,
>Konstantin
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>2013/9/30 Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at digia.com>
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>On 9/30/13 7:48 PM, "Konstantin Ritt" <ritt.ks at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>2013/9/30 Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at digia.com>
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>>On 9/30/13 5:38 PM, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
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>>>Similarly for Bluetooth, which exists on all platforms. But since I
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>>>the QtBluetooth API, I don't know whether the API implemented makes
>>>sense
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>>>the desktops. Can someone clarify?
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>>Bluetooth makes sense on the desktop, and it will probably happen at some
>>point, but right it's not there yet.
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>>Does making it an "official add-on" mean QtBluetooth BC/SC can not be
>>broken after 5.2?
>>If so, I'm pretty sure it is not ready yet and we could probably take
>>that announcing back and postpone it until 5.3 (or maybe even 5.4).
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>And why do you believe they are not ready? Such a statement without any
>facts/arguments to back it up doesn't help anybody.
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>I've been talking with Alex, who is the Maintainer of the modules, and as
>far as I understood him they are ready.
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>Don't forget that the modules have been around since Qt 4.7 times, and
>have undergone quite a few revisions and API changes/fixes.
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>Cheers,
>Lars
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