[Development] HEADS-UP: Qt 5.4.2 release coming

[Olivier Goffart]

On Tuesday 21. April 2015 15:26:36 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday April 21 2015 14:37:49 Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > If people have been living in the 80s for that long, they can wait until
> > the next minor release.
> 
> If I decided to pick up on this it's because I had had enough of it that
> about none of the Medium/Semibold fonts I use in my GUIs were stable (i.e.
> always "evolved" into either Bold or Normal).

That's not the point.
One can say that for everything:
"If I decided to work on $FEATURE it is because I really need it. Therefore it 
should go in the next patch release"
That's not an argument.

> > Especially because font rendering is so delicate, and fixes somewhere in
> > this area tends to break applications that relied on the previous
> > behaviour. (When suddenly a line is a pixel larger, the rendering of a
> > whole screen can be disastrous.)
> 
> This doesn't have anything to do with rendering. I'm not touching that. It's
> got to do with getting the proper QFont :
[...]

As I said, i don't know the specific details of this patch, but the problem is 
the same. If you get a different font (because you get the more 'proper' font 
now), then this can break applications layout.
It is a behaviour change that should not be part of a patch release.

> Anyway, I'm not going to insist it has to go into 5.4, but I'm not going to
> go out of my way to prepare and test the patches against software I'm not
> even planning to build without proper incentive. Someone may (will) have to
> pick up on what I come up with.

I understand your point of view. But if you want to maximize your chances that 
your patch get included in Qt, you have to target the right branch.

(And honestly, it is not too hard to switch branches. If you can build 5.4 it 
is no more work to build 5.5 or dev)

-- 
Olivier 

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