On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:14:11AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:10:07PM -0500, Richard Heck wrote: > > On 11/10/2010 02:17 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > > > Op 10-11-2010 20:13, Enrico Forestieri schreef: > > >>On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:14:53PM +0100, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > > >>>- We then depend on QtNetwork.dll/lib > > >>YA dependency. This is bad for a next to useless feature. > > >> > > >We can maybe rewrite it to use pipes. Or we can rewrite the piped > > >code to use QLocalSocket. > > > > > This does seem like a major dependency. If it could be removed, that > > wouldn't be a bad thing. > > Just for the record: QtNetwork is not even half the size of QtCore (an > eigth of QtGui), and I am not aware of any system or distribution that > would install one but not the other.
A bug in an external library which mutilates a program is not less serious even if its size was 1/1000 of QtCore. It is another external risky dependency not justified by the benefit of the feature. And the Qt files/pipes/sockets department is not exactly the strengther. -- Enrico
