[Development] NSURLConnection backend in 5.6.2

[Morten Sorvig]

> On 13 Sep 2016, at 20:41, Jake Petroules <jake.petroules at qt.io> wrote:
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>> On Sep 13, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
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>> 13.09.2016, 21:33, "Jake Petroules" <jake.petroules at qt.io>:
>>>  Because the APIs are deprecated by Apple so they would have had to be removed/changed soon anyways, especially when an alternative (which is the default now) is already available.
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>> AFAIK they cannot remove API from released SDK, and users may choose to use it even if it's not latest and greatest anymore.
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> They can and have before. 

I don’t think I’ve seen this happen, unless you were referring to
the 32->64bit transition. If you grep for NS_DEPRECATED in the headers
there are plenty of references to API that has been deprecated for a
long time.

What are the counter-examples?

Morten