[Development] Qt binaries with inlined functions

[Milian Wolff]

On Monday 28 April 2014 05:37:40 Dimitar Dobrev wrote:
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> My problem (and, I'd say, any binding developer's) is
> that I can't tell users "my binding is great, you just need to compile Qt
> yourselves because the binary downloads don't work well enough" - nobody's
> going to use it.

But whoever is going to use your bindings will also have to download some 
binary for the bindings, right? So why don't you add the missing functions in 
a wrapper there and compile it alongside your bindings?

I.e. what Simon said:

> But the ABI promise of Qt remains, so can't you create a library yourself
> that basically contains the inline functions you need and otherwise
> references the exported symbols from Qt? Your bindings will need to ship
> that library, but it should continue to work with newer versions of Qt. (It
> just needs an update when the inline functions change in a newer Qt
> version)

Why does this not work for you? Note that you could even make such a wrapper 
library official and share it with other bindings. Maybe it could even become 
an official Qt module! Then eventually consumers of bindings people  would 
just need to download the additional binding-wrapper libraries and everything 
works as it should?

Bye
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