[Development] RFC: Deprecating setSharable / isSharable in our containers and QString

[Thiago Macieira]

Em sex 21 fev 2014, às 20:11:20, Marc Mutz escreveu:
> On Thursday 20 February 2014 08:32:54 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Please raise your hand if you knew we had that feature.
> 
> I'm sure you know that COW implementations that hand out references to
> shared state need the sharable flag[1]. So are we talking about removing
> the public part of the API?

Yes. I am talking about removing a method from accessible API (undocumented → 
private) in Qt 6.

As for creating a container pointing to non-permanent raw data, I think the 
solution of creating a deleter function makes more sense.

> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2526974/qt-undocumented-method-> setsharable/11108588#11108588

The URL says "undocumented method".
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