[Development] Undeprecating QString::null

[Olivier Goffart]

Am Dienstag, 16. Januar 2018, 16:20:54 CET schrieb Uwe Rathmann:
> Hi all,
> 
> I received a bug report concerning a header of the Qwt library ( http://
> qwt.sf.net ), that is using the deprecated QString::null.
> 
> Sure this is only a warning, but it is obviously something where Qwt
> users get irritated as they can't fix code of a 3rd party header.
> 
> The offending line looks like this:
> 
>     QwtText( const QString & = QString::null, ... );
> 
> So my first question would be, what is wrong about using QString:null and
> why using QString() is better. My second question then would be if this
> is also for Qt4 ( Qwt 6.1.2 supports all versions >= Qt 4.4 ) and older
> versions of C++ and compilers.
> 
> To be honest I don't want to create a new ( + binary incompatible )
> version of Qwt and/or add even more version depending #ifdefs, as long as
> there is no good reason.

QString::null is a leftover of Qt3 and was already deprecated in Qt 4.0
There was just some forgotten remaining compatibility code that was only 
recently marked as QT_DEPRECATED. 
Just change your code to use "= QString()", no #ifdef necessary.

-- 
Olivier

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