[Development] Abandoning the container changes

Michael Hasselmann michaelh at openismus.com
Thu Jul 5 11:28:58 CEST 2012


On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 09:04 +0300, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I think that, despite the potential benefits of the changes, we should not 
> apply them at this time. There are far too many chances for breakage and it's 
> a blatant disrespect for the feature freeze.
> 
> The changes are public, though, so we can always retrieve them for Qt 6 when 
> we do it in (say) 4 years time.

I don't know the changes in detail, but would it be possible to
introduce the container changes under a special namespace instead (think
std::tr1)?

Then we could still choose to use them in new code and the transition to
Qt 6 would be somewhat easier.

regards,
Michael




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