Reason for -no-stl in qt-copy configure recommendation?

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Mon Apr 28 23:29:48 BST 2003


On Monday 28 April 2003 14:43, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> On Monday 28 April 2003 20:19, George Staikos wrote:
> >    Ask Dirk if you don't believe me.  We both wasted enough time
> > fixing STL bugs in KDE a few months ago because the author wrote the
>
> what kind of STL bugs you're speaking about?

  Search kde-cvs archives.  You will find commits from dirk or myself to 
modules to fix problems with STL code not compiling on newer gcc releases.

> > code, dumped it in CVS, then disappeared.  IMO code that uses STL and
> > is not maintained should be reverted to pre-STL, or removed.
>
> Why, only because it's STL?

  Because it doesn't follow existing coding standards, and because the people 
who generally end up fixing these bugs are probably more comfortable with Qt 
given how much time they spend with it.

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