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

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 18/06/2019 23:27, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> So... to be clear, your plan is to deprive Qt users of a (mostly)
> perfectly good wheel, that *is* being used by said users, and instead
> tell all of those users that they need to go (individually) reinvent the
> wheel?

Why depriving? They can stay around, as-is. Current (and future) users 
can still use them...

> 
> On 18/06/2019 03.43, Mutz, Marc via Development wrote:
>> On 2019-06-18 08:18, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>>> On 05/06/19 01:39, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>> Mutz, Marc via Development wrote:
>>>>> and produces surprises such as
>>>>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/gitweb?p=qt%2Fqtbase.git;a=commit;h=96dc9a19ae11ca140d681f0e2605b5f4b953e581
>>>>
>>>> My existing QSharedDataPointer code always checks truth with if
>>>> (d.constData()) and never if (d).
>>>
>>> Adding a const bool operator to QSharedDataPointer would solve the
>>> problem, wouldn't it?
>>
>> And (silently) break code that relies on the current behaviour, yes.
> Here's a thought... how about, instead, just add that operator bool,
> give it the *current* behavior, and mark *it* (and *only* it)
> deprecated. Or, even, just mark the conversions-to-pointer deprecated.
> 
> Don't punish everyone that is using these classes *correctly* because of
> some few places that aren't.

I don't see why people writing "if (d)" should now get deprecation 
warnings and require const_casts to avoid them, when it's absolutely not 
"their fault" for doing something unreasonable. Besides, as mentioned, 
the real deal is operator->.

My 2 c,
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