[Development] Question about QCoreApplicationData::*_libpaths

[André Somers]

Op 21/01/2016 om 08:00 schreef Marc Mutz:
> On Thursday 21 January 2016 05:24:35 Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Marc Mutz wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:50:43 Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>> All these are horrible and error-prone hacks that have obvious lifetime
>>>> issues. You are complaining about Qt containers because the detaching
>>>> can invalidate iterators. Well, the lifetime issues you introduce with
>>>> the above proposed solutions are much worse! And a caching mutable
>>>> member also destroys thread-safety (in addition to the obvious lifetime
>>>> issue that the next call surprisingly invalidates your existing
>>>> reference).
>>> One word: QModelIndex.
>> And that class is the source of innumerable bugs. The fact that one Qt
>> class has such broken semantics is no excuse for putting them everywhere.
Indeed, it is. You will find cases where QModelIndex is stored somewhere 
in many places, also in code writen by people who should know better.
> So how would you have designed it, then?
>
I would have designed something that stays valid. But that's another 
discussion for another thread.

André