[Interest] Qt4 QODBCDriver class and header file no longer in Qt5?

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 1 de agosto de 2013 00:00:54, Constantin Makshin wrote:
> While class names and #include-s are certainly safer because they are
> checked at compile-time, but text names unleash the real power of QtSql
> — unified API (which, IMHO, doesn't make much sense if you stick your
> application to one particular RDBMS) and ability to make the database
> interface selectable by the final user.

Well, there's a bigger problem here: the Qt SQL backends can be plugins. In 
order for you to *use* a QXXXXDriver class, you must link to the code that 
provides the class. If the ODBC driver was built as a plugin (as it usually 
is), the linking would fail.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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