[Development] NSURLConnection backend in 5.6.2

[Lars Knoll]

That’s the policy we have had all the time. No feature removal or additions, no API changes in patch level releases. 

If a feature is really unused, or causes larger issues one can of course discuss exceptions, but it should be a conscious decision involving the relevant maintainers.

Cheers,
Lars




On 14/09/16 09:36, "Development on behalf of Morten Sorvig" <development-bounces+lars.knoll=qt.io at qt-project.org on behalf of Morten.Sorvig at qt.io> wrote:

>Should we have a “no feature removal for cleanup reasons in patch
>releases” policy? That’s easy to understand for everyone and we
>don’t have to make the "is it obscure enough” judgement.
>
>(The build failure could have been easily fixed so I don’t see
>it as a relevant reason.)
>
>Morten
>
>
>
>> On 13 Sep 2016, at 20:33, Jake Petroules <jake.petroules at qt.io> wrote:
>> 
>> Because the APIs are deprecated by Apple so they would have had to be removed/changed soon anyways, especially when an alternative (which is the default now) is already available. Also it caused build failure on tvOS/watchOS.
>> 
>>> On Sep 13, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The changelog contains this entry:
>>> 
>>> - [QTBUG-45031] The NSURLConnection backend of QNetworkAccessManager has
>>>   been removed, since SecureTransport is the default SSL backend on iOS
>>>   and is enabled by default. This means that building with -no-openssl
>>>   -no-securetransport will no longer provide SSL capabilities on iOS.
>>> 
>>> WTH? Why are we removing options in a patch release? What happened?
>>> 
>>> Is the backend so severely broken that it needed to be removed?
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>>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>>  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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