[Development] Another integer typedef OR how to prepare for 64-bit in Qt 5

[Edward Welbourne]

On Monday, 3 December 2018 02:02:31 PST Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote:
>> 2) should we offer users some way (configure time switch, template
>> parameter, ...) to keep int-based indexes and avoid all these
>> warnings while they fix their code to use a ssize_t-like index?

Thiago Macieira (3 December 2018 17:27)
> No. There will be no warnings. We'll fix the all before the release.
>
> The question is only if we've identified all places that need to be
> fixed, those that don't produce a warning.

That covers all the warnings in the Qt code-base.
I think Giuseppe had client code in mind; we can't fix that.
Shall your changes leave client code getting type conflicts ?
I guess it shall, in so far as they're using int by default.
That has, after all, been The Qt Way for decades ...

	Eddy.