[Development] Modules in qtbase (was: Re: new "debugsupport" module and API)

[Knoll Lars]

On 13/05/14 08:57, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>Em ter 13 maio 2014, às 06:01:00, Knoll Lars escreveu:
>> Actually I was thinking about splitting a few more things out. In
>>addition
>> to the ones mentioned above, I believe we would benefit from splitting
>> QtNetwork out into it’s own module. The reason is that QtNetwork is
>> responsible for many of the failing CI runs due to the inherent
>> instability on the network tests. Splitting out the module should help
>> make many of the qtbase integrations go more smoothly.
>> 
>> From what I can see nothing else in qtbase (apart from the bearer
>>plugins)
>> depends on qtnetwork, so a split should be possible.
>
>That won't help unless we also disable the revdep for QtQuick, as QtQuick
>depends on QtNetwork.

That doesn’t mean we need to run the network tests as a revdep as well.

>We definitely need the QtNetwork tests rerun every time a change in
>QIODevice 
>is made (3 of the 6 classes deriving from it are in QtNetwork), but that
>could 
>be managed.

I don’t see that as a big problem. How often do we change QIODevice in
practice? It’s a couple of times per year.

Cheers,
Lars