[Development] Abandoning the container changes

[André Pönitz]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:06:55AM +0000, joao.abecasis at nokia.com wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I would rather we don't *rush* the container changes in, but get them
> up to snuff in a separate branch, instead. I would also like to
> challenge the assumptions I've seen repeated that probability for
> breakage is low and autotest coverage is high. It isn't and it isn't.
> It is very easy to break less-often used features and corner cases
> that will not get caught by autotests. I don't think this is
> acceptable for fundamentals like QVector and friends. 
> 
> I think it would be feasible to do a binary-only break somewhere
> around the 5.2 timeframe (say, ~12 months) where we address this.
> Technically, this would be Qt 6, but user porting effort would be
> reduced to a recompile.

That's essentially option (D) with a somewhat longer lead time.

I think that would be ok.

> The value of having a long lived (5 years?) binary compatible 5.x
> series is (IMO) low as there are quite often other reasons to
> recompile the stack.

Right.

Andre'