On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 03:09:56AM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 2/20/20 2:24 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:33:45PM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > > > >> What I wonder: there are the Qt elements used. Why don’t we rely > >> on the services of QFileInfo class? E.g. canonicalFilePath() and > >> friends? Are there historical reasons only? > > Yes, at the time it was not possible using Qt in src/support. > > Did we make an 'official' decision about this? If so, has it been > recorded somewhere, like the development notes in the repo? If we're > really prepared to allow Qt pretty much everywhere---i.e., after all > these years, we're willing to admit that LyX is a Qt-based app---then > there may well be a lot of simplifications we could make, maybe in the > 2.5 cycle. Of course, that would make us more vulnerable to Qt bugs....
In a developers meeting at the end of 2008 it was decided that Qt could be used if there were good reasons for it: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg160412.html But at the end of 2011 its use was still frowned upon: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg171844.html -- Enrico -- lyx-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
