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

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 22 de novembro de 2016 07:00:17 PST Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2016 02:07:08 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > That said, sometimes rebuilding even if there was no dependency on the
> > private  API could result in improvements. For example, every time we add
> > overloads there's a chance that the new method is faster and will get
> > selected.
> 
> Its even worse: if Qt fixes a bug in an inline function, no application will
> benefit unless recompiled, either. So for any Qt user, and esp. distros,
> not recompiling all users of Qt when Qt changes runs the risk of not
> getting some of the bug fixes, leading to users seeing those bugs together
> with Qt versions in which they're officially fixed.

True, but there are two important factors in this:

1) those bugfixes and overload additions are not so common

2) application rebuilding can happen at a leisure pace, when resources are 
available or when the application would have been updated anyway

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center