[Development] Asking for a FF exception for ICU based QStringConverter

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 9 June 2022 12:36:25 PDT Alexander Akulich wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 10:14 PM Thiago Macieira
> 
> <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> > Doesn't work for libraries.
> 
> Can you explain please?

Libraries don't call QCoreApplication's constructor.

The application may have been recompiled and thus will inform QCoreApplication 
it was compiled against 6.4, but the library in question (a KF6 one) may have 
still been compiled against 6.3.

> I see this correspond to 5.0.0 until
> QCoreApplication constructor called but I thought it would be 'better
> than a leak'.
> QCoreApplicationPrivate::app_compile_version is a part of QtCore, so
> even if it won't work *across* the libraries, it is still available
> for QStringConverter because it is a part of the same library.

Wrong tool for the job, as explained above. Removing in:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/415327

In any case, I'll not make a runtime decision based on version. It's much 
easier to make a static decision based on which function you called.

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