[Development] QMetaTypeId and QMetaTypeId2

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 9 de February de 2012 12.39.54, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> I always thought they were split so that Qt could add new built-in metatypes
> without breaking user code.

That's not why it was added.

> Eg, if you merge them, any user code doing:
> 
> Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(QModelIndex)

Most types are not built-ins. They may be added by another library, like 
QtDBus (that Q_DECLARE_METATYPEs a lot of types) and then there's no 
protection.

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