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

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

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Subject: Re: Qt5 switching qreal from float to double on arm*
Date: Tuesday 05 November 2013, 19:22:30
From: peter green <plugwash at p10link.net>
To: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com>, ARM <debian-
arm at lists.debian.org>

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> I really don't understand where Canonical gets in here. 
If qreal is float on armhf and key software fails in that configuration 
then canonical have to fix it (ubuntu are usually either very close to 
or ahead of debian on key software)

Afaict neither armel or sh4 has anything like the level of "corporate 
support" that armhf gets from canonical.
> I also don't understand what you mean with "ports that stick with qreal". 
> qreal is a typedef which type is defined at compile time. Did you meant 
float?
>   
Sorry I meant ports that stick with defining qreal as float.
>   
> I have not participated in any way in upstream's decision nor I have the 
power 
> to overcome them. Anyway, we are giving the choice of a compile-time 
parameter 
> to better suit our needs on purpose.
The problem is this is going to have a massive affect on ABI which implies:

1: changing the descision later would mean a soname change
2: if debian make a different descision from other distros we will be 
binary incompatible.


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<des> lisandropm: en qué año naciste? quiero saber si contás como arte
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<lisandropm> des 13 de julio de 1982
<des> lisandropm: estás en el horno
<lisandropm> des:. vos?
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<des> despues es cuestión de borrar de la wikipedia todos los articulos de
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* lisandropm llama desesperado a su abogado

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