[Development] QList for Qt 6

[Marco Bubke]

Maybe flatpak is the way to go? There could be two runtimes. Personally I use more and more flatpaks because I get up-to-date packages provided by the developers.

On May 24, 2019 19:59:52 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 10:53, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:
> [snip]
>> I’m not proposing to make QList inherit QVector. Actually, I’m making it an alias to QVector. See https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/242692 .
>>
>>
>> With that, one option could be to make the alias dependent on a compile time setting for the application code (ie. have a simple define whether we do
>>
>>
>> using QList = QVector
>>
>>
>> Or
>>
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>> using QList = Qt5Support::QList
>
> That would actually be painful for distros. Once we take either route
> we can't go back without breaking ABI. And we will possibly be
> choosing different things in each distro, which makes it even worst.
> Example: qreal in Qt5.
>
> I really think Marc Mutz's approach would be more sensible in this case.
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