[Development] A QtCore class for event-driven jobs

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 10 September 2013 21:09:55 Peter Kümmel wrote:
> On 06.09.2013 19:52, David Faure wrote:
> >     connect(job, SIGNAL(result(QJob*)),
> >             this, SLOT(handleResult(QJob*)));
> 
> This looks so old-school like in times of futures and monads.

I'm an old-timer, clearly ;-)

> Couldn't such a class be part of the hopefully coming QtConcurrent
> replacement?

Can we forget about threads for a second?

The main point of event-driven jobs is to have them use the event loop, NOT 
threads.

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