[Development] Is QFutureInterface internal like the other d-pointer classes?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Jul 23 19:14:26 CEST 2015


On Thursday 23 July 2015 16:34:40 Lorenz Haas wrote:
> 2015-07-23 13:20 GMT+02:00 Marc Mutz <marc.mutz at kdab.com>:
> > It's undocumented, and considered private, but since it's a template and
> > thus must be visible, it effectively is public API and falls under the
> > same restrictions for changes as public API. IOW: it cannot change
> > (incompatibly) until Qt 6.
> > 
> > If you're fine with that, go ahead and use it in your code.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> Are there any plans to make QFuture/QFutureInterface (completely)
> public in Qt 6 as a Qt counterpart to std::future/std::promise?

There are no plans on either way. We'll probably have to decide on std::future 
when we get to Qt 6.

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