[Development] Abandoning the container changes

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 5 de julho de 2012 11.28.58, Michael Hasselmann wrote:
> 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.

We can add them, but I don't see a value in doing that if no one is using 
them. They'll just increase build time.

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