[Qt-interest] Problem using URL with special characters

[Atlant Schmidt]

Thiago:

> I can't add the assertion...
>
> The proper fix is to rewrite QUrl in Qt 5, which I'm doing.

  Thanks for the clarification!

                                Atlant

-----Original Message-----
From: Thiago Macieira [mailto:thiago at kde.org]
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 07:27
To: qt-interest at qt.nokia.com
Cc: Atlant Schmidt
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Problem using URL with special characters

On Monday, 29 de August de 2011 07.22.41, Atlant Schmidt wrote:
> Thiago:
>
>   If:
>
>     1. It's "the same mistake that everyone does" and
>
>     2. "QUrl's ... constructor is unusable"
>
>   It's not really "everyone's mistake"; it's a bug in Qt.
>
>   Now if the design of QUrl can't be fixed so its constructor
>   must remain unusable, maybe Qt needs to replace the construc-
>   tor with the printing of an error message and an ASSERT(false)
>   or some other construct that will prevent "everyone" from
>   blundering into this design problem?

I can't add the assertion because there is valid code using the constructor
and has been tested. The fact that the design is flawed doesn't mean people
can't work around the problems.

It was incorrect to say it's unusable. It is usable, under a very limited set
of circumstances.

The proper fix is to rewrite QUrl in Qt 5, which I'm doing.

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