[arch-general] why QT-4.5.0-4 is compiled with exceptions?

[Lukáš Jirkovský]

2009/3/25 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>:
> Hi
>
> I see that QT is now compiled with exceptions enabled. There is a reason
> for it?
> Searching in the forum, looking for why this change, I encountered only
> one old topic(2005) [#1]. (A discussion about it between phrakture and
> vicious)
> the C++ exception handling has been improved since those days?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> [#1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=8998
>
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Why not compile Qt with exceptions? It's IMO quite useful for development.

regards,
Lukáš "stativ" Jirkovský