[Development] Basing Qt Creator Coding Style on C++ Core Guidelines?

Marc Mutz marc.mutz at kdab.com
Sun Nov 20 08:33:23 CET 2016


On Saturday 19 November 2016 22:30:51 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em sábado, 19 de novembro de 2016, às 19:57:57 PST, Marc Mutz escreveu:
> > You see, this is a perfect example of why we _don't_.
> >
> > 
> >
> > (Some parts of) KF5 use boost and STL in the API (ever since KDE 4 or
> > even 3). It hasn't been a problem for KDE to keep BC guarantees
> > comparable to what Qt does. What makes you think that Qt would be any
> > different?
> 
> Those parts of KDE don't keep BC guarantees. Distros have to rebuild 
> everything when their dependencies change.

I wonder why we used d-pointers and virtual_hook in, say, libkdepim if it 
doesn't guarantee BC...

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