[Development] Summary ABI compabilty

[Thiago Macieira]

On terça-feira, 22 de novembro de 2016 19:21:40 PST Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote:
> * pros:
> ** You can use Qt compiled against either libc++ or libstdc++, with
> "the other one", without recompiling Qt.

> * subjective cons:
> ** apart from Qt, noone does that, why should Qt be special in that regard?
> ** is there anyone really using this feature?

And that's why we couldn't make the decision: we don't know.

macOS seems to have settled on libc++, but now many Linux distributions are 
providing it too. The question is whether long-term people will want this on 
Linux or not (Android included).

Right now, since none of the distributions shipping libc++ are doing it right, 
you cannot use "the other one" without recompiling Qt anyway. If this way of 
building will remain, then we don't have a problem.

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center