[Development] QList for Qt 6

[Simon Hausmann]

Hi,

I’m very much in favor of having QList be an alias for QVector and try it out, in qt5, with creator and KDE.


Simon

On 27. May 2019, at 10:12, Lars Knoll <lars.knoll at qt.io> wrote:

>> On 25 May 2019, at 00:37, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Il 24/05/19 18:16, Uwe Rathmann ha scritto:
>>>> We're talking about code that users should_stop_  using anyhow,
>>>> and port away from it, right?
>>> Please also consider the situation of 3rd party libraries ( like Qwt ),
>>> that have to support Qt5/Qt6 from the same code base - probably for many
>>> years after Qt6 has been released.
>>> Currently Qwt supports all Qt version >= Qt 4.4. Qwt 5.x did even
>>> support Qt3/Qt4 from the same code base, what was a nightmare as you can
>>> imagine.
>>> In my daily work project we also have a set of core libraries, that run
>>> on old hardware with Qt4/QWS and on more recent projects with Qt5.
>> 
>> This is yet another argument in favour of "don't touch QList": codebases that need compatibility.
> 
> Having QList an alias to QVector would solve almost all of those problems (except for the fear that now unstable references might break some code).
> 
> I’d say we now check on some larger code bases (Qt, Creator and maybe some parts of KDE), how replacing QList with QVector works out in practice. And do a decision after that.
> 
> Lars
> 
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