[Development] Making QScopedPointer scoped (again)

[Knoll Lars]

On 9/5/13 8:02 AM, "Olivier Goffart" <olivier at woboq.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday 04 September 2013 20:09:38 Knoll Lars wrote:
>
>> >You also can typedef QScopedPointer QUniquePointer; and deprecate the
>> >former
>> >name.
>> 
>> typedef's are usually not such a good idea, as forward declarations
>>won't
>> work the way people expect them to.
>> 
>
>
>Unrelated,   but i think we should do like the STL and forbid forward
>declaration of Qt classes.
>
>We could add some forward declaration headers that would be auto
>generated by 
>syncqt.
>#include <QtCore_Fwd>
>#include <QtWidget_Fwd>
>
>
>That way, in Qt6 we can use typdefs, namespaces, change template
>parametters,
> 
>...

I agree and we had discussions about this before in the office.
>
>
>Note: I am not volunteering to make the suncqt change ;-)

That has so far been the problem with this idea ;-)

Cheers,
Lars