[Interest] Qt 5 on Mac OS X

[Adam Light]

Morten:

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Sorvig Morten <Morten.Sorvig at digia.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Qt 5 aims to be 98% source compatible with Qt 4. Still, changes has been
> made to the platform implementation and infrastructure. Not all have been
> discussed here, so I figured I'd give a brief rundown.
>
> The main issue that everyone should be aware of is that all Qt 5 platform
> ports are to a large degree rewrites. This means new code. If you find
> something that is missing it is far more likely that we simply forgot about
> it rather than it being a part some twisted scheme to break your
> application.
>
> Now, on the changes where we actually _are_ breaking your application:
>

Thanks for the summary of the changes.

I think you left one major one (for us at least) out of your list: the
elimination of the QMacPasteboardMime class (the equivalent QWindowsMime
class on Windows is also gone).

Thiago has previously mentioned on this list that a replacement for
QMacPasteboardMime
is/may be planned for Qt 5.1, but I assume that is a long way off. Is there
any plan to provide an equivalent in QtMacExtras sooner?

FWIW, we use these classes to support clipboard formats that Qt doesn't
natively support and to override handling of some image formats that Qt
does support but which it does not fully support (eg. TIFF images
containing floating point data or 16 bit integer data).

Thanks
Adam
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