[Development] Allowed C++11 features [was: Re: Re: MSVC2012 in CI]

[André Somers]

Op 21/03/2016 om 14:25 schreef Marc Mutz:
> On Monday 21 March 2016 13:38:43 Sean Harmer wrote:
>> On Monday 21 March 2016 12:23:44 Poenitz Andre wrote:
>> It's to support one-to-many delivery of an event-like object to backends
>> potentially running on multiple threads concurrently. The type is not a
>> QObject so can't be managed by the QObject parent-child relationship. Using
>> a naked pointer
> But QSharedPointer *is* a naked pointer. That is, if you're referring to Sean
> Parent's definition in his goal of "No raw pointers".
>
>> goes against modern C++ recommendations and would mean
>> having to put in place code to delete the objects after all consumers are
>> done with it.
> If you follow Sean Parent, then you should hide the naked shared pointer in an
> object with value semantics. In Qt we'd say a CoW type, but the type may not
> need to allow writing.
Are we following Sean Parent though? Because if we are, we better start 
thinking about also replacing our QObject parent/child stuff with some 
external forest data structure in the future...

André