Thanks. I understood as much. But I was surprised that initWithFormats actually requires the caller to specify all parameters. Is that correct? If so, this function seems basically useless to me. I would assume someone would then always use init followed by individual calls of setter functions. If all that is correct, then the initWithFormats function should simply be removed. It also makes it basically impossible to deprecate the 3 settings that we recently discussed.

There has been 1 'No' vote and your comment is the only one so far, so you voted 'No'? If so why?

Yes, initWithFormat requires a caller to specifiy all parameters - something that doesn't sit right with me as well. I've checked with our iOS guys and they always use init and the appropriate setter functions, so I think it makes sense to remove initWithFormat. I've already filed a PR for this.

There has been 1 'No' vote and your comment is the only one so far, so you voted 'No'? If so why?

Yes, that was me 😉 But I'm not too sure about this. My initial thought was that some platforms might work better with special default settings. But it sure is desireable to have ZXingCpp work everywhere the same out of the box, too.

Awesome, one step closer to the ideal repository (the empty one, because it contains 0 bugs and is trivial to comprehend ;)).

@benjohnde your last chance to come up with a convincing argument why I should not merge this.