[Development] Qt online SDK security problems

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezmeyer at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 21:10:26 CEST 2019


El jueves, 18 de abril de 2019 14:13:47 -03 Stottlemyer, Brett (B.S.) 
escribió:
[snip] 
> However, why are patch releases considered a new component instead of an
> update?  Why do you need to "add a new component" from the installer to get
> 5.12.3 if you are on 5.12.2?  If 5.12 were treated as a component,
> excluding the patch release, wouldn't new patch releases show up as updates
> and QtCreator could alert you when the update is available?

Because of private API maybe? As long as you do not use private API you are 
safe, but private API can change within patch versions if necessary.


-- 
A proprietary undocumented text format as the de facto standard -- and that's
what .doc is -- is a shame for all parties involved. It's like using a special
patented ink that can only be read with special patented sun glasses. Who
would want to use that for all their scientific, private and business
documents? Probably nobody. Why they do so with computers is beyond me.
  Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project.
  https://lwn.net/Articles/273715/rss

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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