Episode 666 or what? (update)

Big fat warning: the following text is politically incorrect (regarding to Distribution Correctness). It should contains some savage words (if I know some in English). End of Warning.

I’m sitting in the front of opened bugtracker listening some old good rock and roll and The Idea is borning… slowly… but unstoppable… Can you anybody explain to me what are Ubuntu people doing with standard libraries? All known and sane systems (Windows included) usualy behave the same — just Ubuntu varies. Regulary.

This is episode 666
destination chaos
Each and all an actor blind

Ghosh, it’s boring. I’m running Ubuntu in the Virtualbox. Yep and the same code is working correctly on Opensuse with exactly the same version of Qt4 (but who knows how They patch it). Hours of time wasted.

So. Let’s compile vanilla Qt4 on Ubuntu and prepare Yet Another Minimal Example of Crippled Behaviour. #!$#%%! And weekend is still far ahead.

Update

I rewrote affected functionality. It was older Q3Supported code. Now it behaves correctly. In the pure Qt4 MVC architecture. The project milestone deadline does not allow me to examine it more. Anyway — thanks for your hints about Qt patches. I’ll use it in future for sure.

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Oracle meets MS SQL server (propably) vol. 666

WTF are three pages of this sick code for?!

IF col1 IS NULL THEN
  col1 := '';
END IF;

I hate this job sometimes…

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