[Development] Deprecating QString::{v,}sprintf()

[Marc Mutz]

On Tuesday February 21 2012, Marc Mutz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The QString header contains a ### about removing sprintf() in 5.0, but it's
> still there. I'd like to deprecate them.
>
> I have a long-standing hate of the fact that QString::sprintf() is not
> static, so my preferred solution would be to make it static, but that
> silently breaks existing usage other than the idiomatic
> QString().sprintf().
>
> Unless there's a clever technique by which we can at compile-time catch
> non-static uses of sprintf(), I'd propose to just deprecate it.

Actually, I just found GNU's asprintf() extension ("allocated-string printf"), 
arguably a better name for QString::sprintf() anyway. So I'll upload a patch 
to Gerrit that will:

1. Deprecate QString{v,}sprintf()
2. Add static QString::{v,}asprintf()

Thanks,
Marc


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