Best practice for libraries supporting both Qt4 and Qt5

[Thiago Macieira]

On domingo, 1 de dezembro de 2013 13:42:15, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 November 2013, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> >> Any thoughts?
> > 
> > In an ideal world we would convince the distros to enable Qt namespace on
> > Qt5, so that Qt4 and Qt5 symbols does not clash, and does not cause
> > crashes when loaded as plugins etc.
> 
> Sounds pretty nice, wonder why that is not enabled by default then.

Because trying to load two different builds into the same process space is 
likely going to cause a lot more headache than you anticipate, even with the 
namespace sharing.

For one thing, both Qt will try to own the event loop.

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