[Development] Qt 5.5.0 header diff

Marc Mutz marc.mutz at kdab.com
Fri Jun 12 00:28:05 CEST 2015


On Thursday 11 June 2015 22:07:00 André Pönitz wrote:
> To be blunt: Even though some of the existing patterns and conventions
> are unfashionable in 2015, consistency is a value by itself. Any
> partial "modernization" of the API destroys that consistency, and
> therefore value. So even if "use pattern B instead of A" is
> uncontroversial when considered isolated, it's not a given that using
> B instead of A in new Qt API is a win. And that ignores the fact that
> there's rarely an situaion of a B being uniformly better than an A.

Would you mind being more specific about what Pattern A and Pattern B you have 
in mind?

Thanks,
Marc

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