[Development] QAudio/QtAudio in Qt v6.7.0/6.7.1

[Björn Schäpers]

Am 03.06.2024 um 10:20 schrieb Volker Hilsheimer via Development:
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>> On 3 Jun 2024, at 09:08, Phil Thompson via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
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>> In my code I call QAudio::convertVolume() (yet to migrate to the QtAudio namespace).  This compiles fine against Qt v6.7.0 and v6.7.1 (from the online installers). However...
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>> Compiled against v6.7.0 the compiler generates a call to QtAudio::convertVolume(). The library contains symbols for both QAudio::convertVolume() and QtAudio::convertVolume().
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>> Compiled against v6.7.1 the compiler generates a call to QAudio::convertVolume(). The library only contains a symbol for QAudio::convertVolume().
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>> The result is that code compiled against v6.7.0 will not work with v6.7.1.
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>> Thanks,
>> Phil
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> Hi Phil,
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> we indeed tried to be too clever for our own good with the rename of the QAudio namespace to QtAudio.
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> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtreleasenotes.git/about/qt/6.7.1/release-note.md
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> documents that Qt 6.7.1 breaks BC with 6.7.0 in order to restore 6.7.1 compatibility with Qt 6.6, so you have to recompile against 6.7.1.
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> Volker
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Hi,

but you really have to look for it. I read the old release notes, and the ones 
from the QtCreator, which still follows the "old style", I also read. But the Qt 
release notes I do not read anymore. You'd think that such a situation would be 
right on top, but the contrary:

 > Qt 6.7.1 does not add any new functionality but provides
 > bug fixes and other improvements and maintains both forward and backward
 > compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 6.7.0.

Most likely automatically generated.

I know why you made the decision to change the release notes, but from that 
point on I can not use them. I have no intent to read git hashes and commit 
messages. Because commit messages and release notes have a different target 
audience (which may overlap).

Kind regards,
Björn.