[Development] Two source incompatibilities in Qt 5.5 with Clang

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday 15 March 2015 19:28:22 André Pönitz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:41:32PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Which can still be done in one line.  But we don't even need to do it.
> > > We
> > > can leave the old one as it, and use Q_ASSERT_UNUSED for the new asserts
> > 
> > Before we discuss the name, we have to discuss doing a 10k-line change to
> > 1884 files in Qt.
> 
> A semi-mechanical change of that size doesn't sound worse than a regular
> license update.

It's not worse. It's just as bad. Neither type of change should have to 
happen.

Peppe asked:
> But why would such a change be necessary?

Because we want to benefit from the new code and remove the unnecessary #ifndef 
and Q_UNUSED. If we don't change the current macro, then we deprecate the old 
one and convert all the code to the new one
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center