[Interest] Current QDataStream format documentation?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

23.09.2016, 18:41, "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>:
>>  Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 at 11:14 AM
>>  From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
>>  To: interest at qt-project.org
>>  Subject: Re: [Interest] Current QDataStream format documentation?
>>
>>  On sexta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2016 17:05:26 PDT Jason H wrote:
>>  > > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 at 10:12 PM
>>  > > From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
>>  > > To: interest at qt-project.org
>>  > > Subject: Re: [Interest] Current QDataStream format documentation?
>>  > >
>>  > > On sexta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2016 03:01:40 PDT Jason H wrote:
>>  > > > The documentation should be current. Maintaining documentation is part
>>  > > > os
>>  > > > selling the toolkit.
>>  > >
>>  > > The maintainer of QDataStream (me) disagrees. I don't like the versioning
>>  > > support in the first place, since it's an all-or-nothing.
>>  >
>>  > So the expectation is that I dig through [thousands, hundreds, dozens?] of
>>  > commits to find out what changed? I wouldn't even know where to start.
>>
>>  The expectation is that you read QDataStream with QDataStream. You don't need
>>  to know what it writes, only that it can read what it writes.
>
> Which is great until it's writing to another device that does not implement Qt, because it's an Arduino or similar. I don't think it's an unusual scenario that you're using QDataStream to exchange data to a device that does not implement Qt.

In this case you will have better result by using one of existing well-defined serialization formats
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Regards,
Konstantin