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Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*



On Thursday 07 November 2013 18:55:31 Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> > - We don't know yet what other distros are going to do.
> 
> IMO we shouldn't have distro-specific patching for this kind of stuff;
> it seems to commonly impact apps (which should be using qreal instead of
> assuming qreal is double) way too commonly, and we want binaries to be
> compatible between distros, so diverging from upstream seems a really
> bad idea.

The problem is the can of worms it has been opened: now we have the *chance* 
to choose, so ideally we need maintainers from most distros cooperating to 
keep SONAME and ABI the same.

Let's hope maintainers from other distros stand up.

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
http://perezmeyer.com.ar/
http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/

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