[Development] Question about QCoreApplicationData::*_libpaths

[Olivier Goffart]

On Dienstag, 19. Januar 2016 12:02:12 CET Knoll Lars wrote:
> Things are not just black and white. But we can’t do a Qt6 that simply
> removes all of them completely. We’d leave most of our users behind on Qt 5
> forever. So we have to find better, and maybe more incremental, ways to
> handle this. With a radical 'let’s throw them all away' approach we will
> leave all our current users behind.

Just an idea:

We deprecate them, so all our api use std::vector and such.
We add a qt5support library which contains classes like:

template<typename T> class QVector : public std::vector<T> 
{
  QVector(std::vector<T>); // implicit conversion from std::vector
  /* All the Qt API  goes here */
};

I believe this should be mostly source compatible.

This also assume we can use std in our ABI (which i think we should allow)

Marc Mutz wrote:
> > E.g. QVector seriously needs to support move-only types (like 
> > unique_ptr) in a C++11 world. Oops... it never will... it's CoWed...

Actually, it might be possible, using SFINAE, to disable the copy constructor 
of QVector when the T is not copyable.  (and we also do not call detach for 
such T since it cannot be copyed and therefore cannot be shared)

-- 
Olivier 

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