[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 80, Issue 9

[Roland Hughes]

On 05/14/2018 10:54 AM, interest-request at qt-project.org wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 May 2018 07:11:57 PDT Roland Hughes wrote:
>> On 05/12/2018 08:57 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> I'm claiming that Qt is run 1% of the time in big-endian mode. Explain to
>>> me why the 99% should perform the byte swap.
>> Because that class was created to communicate with the big-endian world
>> of real computers.
> No, it was not. It was created to communicate with other Qt applications.
On that we will perpetually disagree. Us old people were actually around 
back then...<Grin>
>
>> Do not change the default. Feel free to create a
>> different class,
> I won't change the default, but mostly because I want people to stop using
> QDataStream altogether and switch to CBOR. So I won't invest any time in
> updating QDataStream so the problems you've raised in terms of compatibility
> would be addressed. (yes, the  problems would be real)
Thank you.

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