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

[Marco Bubke]

On November 22, 2016 01:30:47 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2016 23:18:08 ART Marco Bubke wrote:
> [snip] 
>> And how many applications are Qt only and use no standard lib anyway? Are
>> there any numbers?
>
> Good question, I wonder if there is a way to dig that.
>
>> Yes, sometimes they are inlined but sometimes they are
>> not. Is it really a so big burden for you? 
>
> Yes, as I described in a previous mail. Thiago got a nice word there: 
> bottleneck. It's a heck of a bottle neck.
>
>> And what are you doing about
>> GTK? To my knowledge their BC is quite limit.
>
> I guess GTK maintainers suffer, specially with the last changes they announced 
> some time ago about breaking API/ABI (sorry, I don't remember exactly which 
> one) in some minor releases. Incindentally the first thing we Qt maintainers 
> though about those changes is how lucky we are to have such a string-minded 
> upstream that guarantess ABI during the life of a major version.

So GTK maintainers can do it. There are much more applications on my Linux Desktop so it is possible. And like Linus Torvalds has said,  it is questionable to provide a package for every application on Earth. Flatpack is a much more reasonable choise for the developer and the user. 


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>
> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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