[Development] moc 4.8.6 & macros

[Samuel Gaist]

On 11 sept. 2014, at 21:49, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 11 September 2014 21:44:15 Samuel Gaist wrote:
>> What would be the correct procedure to handle QT_DEPRECATED_SINCE ? Removing
>> it from around the signal declaration would make the code a bit
>> inconsistent.
>> 
>> By the way, how is it handled in Qt 5 since building goes without any
>> problem even with the macros around the signal ?
> 
> moc is smarter in Qt 5: it expands macros.
> 
> But the recommendation stands: do not #if (of any kind) anything that isn't 
> #defined in the same source, in a header next to the one being compiled, or 
> passed as -D in the command-line.
> 
> That means: don't hide signals and slots with #if, even for deprecation.

I thought I've read somewhere that moc got better at this job :-)

It seems that the new moc doesn't use much of the Qt 5 only classes, would it be useful to backport it to Qt 4 to avoid having to "break" the code style for modules supporting both series ?