[Development] Proposal to retain \since version information in Qt Documentation

Jaroslaw Kobus Jaroslaw.Kobus at qt.io
Tue Sep 24 23:22:06 CEST 2024


> On Tuesday 24 September 2024 13:37:13 GMT-7 Axel Spoerl via Development wrote:
> > - I can’t seem to find any pattern / rules as to when a \since tag was added
> > in the past. Some APIs have a \since 4.x tag, some have nothing at all.
> > Putting effort into regulating the removal of something, that has been
> > added in an unregulated way, is totally OK if it’s a priority.
> 
> We didn't start adding them until post 4.0. I don't think 3.x had the tag at
> all and APIs new in 4.0 weren't marked as such either. That means the furthest
> back we can go is 4.0. Qt 3 to 4 was also a massive update, so I don't think
> it would be useful to go that far back anyway. Qt 4.0 will be 20 years old
> next year.

If the change introducing \since were tagged as \since we would now easily know when it was introduced.

Jarek


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