[Development] Abandoning the container changes

[Andre Somers]

Op 16-7-2012 23:52, Thiago Macieira schreef:
> On segunda-feira, 16 de julho de 2012 21.34.10, André Pönitz wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 09:04:39AM +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.
>> I assume this is meant as a verdict, not as (possibly temporary)
>> state of thinking.
> Correct. The changes are the right thing to do, just not now. We'll have to
> live with the current containers and their overhead until Qt 6.
>
> That includes the fact that QList<QVariant> is extremely inefficient.
That being the case, would it be possible to at least document these 
issues properly then? I think it is not all that clear from the 
documentation that QList is so inefficient for these cases. I don't 
think documentation changes are binary incompatible ;-)

André