[Development] Heads up: File engines being removed from Qt 5 API

[João Abecasis]

Hello everyone,

This is to give a heads up that file engines in their current incantation are being removed from public API for Qt 5. This is to happen Real Soon Now (tm):

    http://codereview.qt-project.org/15236

There's a pending change to remove the internal function QFile::fileEngine:

    http://codereview.qt-project.org/15235

Another related patch made it in recently, it adds the member function in QFileInfo::isNativePath, which is meant to substitute for QAbstractFileEngine::LocalFileFlag, answering whether the path can be used with native APIs:

    http://codereview.qt-project.org/15665

Following up on review comments, this last one should undergo a mini API review/discussion. I'll bring that up again in a separate e-mail for proper visibility.

Cheers,


João