[Development] A QtCore class for event-driven jobs

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 9 September 2013 19:38, David Faure <david.faure at kdab.com> wrote:
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> I understand that you want to limit the growth of QtCore, but, hmm, a separate
> library/module QtJobs seems very strange. It's not like it's separate
> technology, the core of QAbstractJob's technology is the QtCore event loop.
> Can you see yourself at the next Dev Days presenting the Qt modules with
> "Qt Core, Qt Gui, Qt Network, Qt Multimedia and ... Qt Jobs" ? It doesn't fit
> that list, because it's not a separate technology with separate dependencies.

Indeed, but how about starting with an addon and then moving the
classes inside QtCore? We can freely break API/ABI in addons -- when
things get stabilized, we start including them in QTCore/QtNetwork...
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Giuseppe D'Angelo