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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:34:02 PDT Mutz, Marc via Development wrote:
> I'm not concerned about bugs. I'm concerned that making Qt's pimpl_ptr
> public API constrains how Qt itself is implemented. Sure, we can add yet
> another pimpl_ptr and make that public again, by the same rationale. But
> what purpose do four different Qt pimpl_ptrs serve, which all need to be
> supported? That makes no sense. We had the same issues with QSharedData,
> btw. And since that was public, we had to introduce QtPrivate::RefCount.

They serve different purposes. QSharedData could use QtPrivate::RefCount for 
its refcount if we wanted to. The reason it doesn't is that QSharedData 
predates RefCount by close to a decade.

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