[Development] Best way to introduce SIC for Qt 6 (was: Branch for Qt 6)

[Sze Howe Koh]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 23:50, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 15 January 2019 00:21:54 PST Lars Knoll wrote:
> > * We regularly merge dev into it
> > * BC breakages are fine
> > * SC breakages require a maintainer approval and a Changelog entry marking
> > this as a source incompatible change * All functions you’d like to remove
> > in qt6 need to be deprecated in dev first
>
> And please avoid Qt6 specific changes if you can, because of those merges.

One of the changes we should consider is for QLabel::pixmap() and
QLabel::picture() to return by-value instead of by-pointer. (Abandoned
alternative at https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/101233/ ) This is
source-incompatible.

What's the best way to introduce this change?


Regards,
Sze-Howe