Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes

Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.8.1-Released

[ahrs]

It was packaged in Gentoo within hours of it being tagged. I wish they'd more closely align pyside6 releases though:

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-python/pyside6

Right now I updated it in my own local overlay.

[Weasel]

Do you rejoice when 500 bugs get fixed in 2 months, or realize how a bug-ridden software/lib you've been using all this time?

[ahrs]

Do you rejoice when 500 bugs get fixed in 2 months, or realize how a bug-ridden software/lib you've been using all this time?

It did make me ponder how many bugs GTK must have laying dormant because they don't have the backing of a commercial company. Where is their first-class support for macOS, Windows, Android and Web Assembly?

Qt is obviously going to have more bugs because it supports more platforms.

[caligula]

Do you rejoice when 500 bugs get fixed in 2 months, or realize how a bug-ridden software/lib you've been using all this time?

It's the same with all minor versions of Qt. This over-complicated piece of turd is just that. Pure garbage. You can't really make properly functioning software in C++. It's the same cult that recently got rid of this guy asking questions about UB.

[bug77]

Do you rejoice when 500 bugs get fixed in 2 months, or realize how a bug-ridden software/lib you've been using all this time?

Considering the scope of the project, even 1,000 bugs is nothing to worry about. As it stands, it's less than 50 bugs per supported platform, on average.

[woddy]

Do you rejoice when 500 bugs get fixed in 2 months, or realize how a bug-ridden software/lib you've been using all this time?

When your software becomes popular and has to interface with hundreds of dependencies, different terms of use, different platforms and thousands of users who use it in the strangest ways, then your fucking software page will be flooded with bug reports and you will realize that the quality of a software is not measured by bugs, but by the usability of it and then maybe you will understand that there is no software without bugs at least if you want to keep up with new technologies and not remain on a piece of museum code.

[AHSauge]

Do you rejoice when 500 bugs get fixed in 2 months, or realize how a bug-ridden software/lib you've been using all this time?

When did the speed at which bugs are fixed become an indicator of quality? Would it make you more comfortable if it were 100 fixed bugs and the remaining 400 were dormant instead?
(Implicitly, how do you know if the alternative is any better)

[ddriver]

Do you rejoice when 500 bugs get fixed in 2 months, or realize how a bug-ridden software/lib you've been using all this time?

Qt is terrible in this regard. The amount of open bugs is EVER INCREASING, and that's despite the periodic swooping of old issues under the rug to massage them numbers.

The key to using Qt successfully - use as little of it, as peripherally as possible. The Qt way is full of pain and suffering. Ironically, it is the best tool of its kind. Which makes is the best, much like how cmake is the best build system and js is the best programming language

[cl333r]

Qt Creator 15 is also out, for those who don't remember - disconnect from the internet before trying to install it or it will require an online user account.