[Development] Qt 5 types under consideration for deprecation / removal in Qt 6

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 30/05/2019 04.12, d3fault wrote:
> On 5/29/19, Mutz, Marc via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
>> == QSharedDataPointer / QExplicitlySharedDataPointer ==
>>
>> These are basically Qt-internals, and should never have been public in
>> the first place.
> 
> I disagree (unless there's some replacement you forgot to mention?).
> Being able to create implicitly shared classes is extremely useful. I
> consider implicit sharing and signals/slots, together, to to be one of
> Qt's greatest strengths. They allow you to thread safely access/read a
> "single" object across multiple threads without even thinking about
> threading primitives such as mutex/waitcondition. You can also thread
> safely modify/write to that object, by copying/detach()'ing just
> before write (CoW).
> 
> I think the reason QSharedDataPointer hasn't seen very much use in
> user code is because it's so darn tedious and time consuming to setup.

Not that I'm disagreeing with (the second half of) that, but...

https://github.com/Kitware/seal-tk/blob/4e8d6683b35dd0a8acd01b7a7dfcde20696d06b8/sealtk/core/VideoMetaData.cpp#L16

This isn't my only use, just the most recent one...

-- 
Matthew