[Development] Proposal: Deprecate QVector in Qt 6

[André Pönitz]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 07:43:33AM +0000, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>    In dev we've had QVector being an alias for QList for a while now. For
>    the 6.0 release this particular topic (QList/QVector) suggests two
>    goals (among others):
> 
>        (1) Use the same type throughout the public API of Qt.
> 
>        (2) Make it easy for our users to maintain a code base that works
>    with Qt 5 and 6.
> 
>    In the light of those two goals, I think we should keep using QList as
>    the type in the public API. I don't think we should do a search and
>    replace activity and switch to QVector. In the light of that, I would
>    like to propose simply deprecating QVector and stick to QList
>    everywhere.
> 
>    What do you think?

This would avoid *quite* a bit code churn for user code.

+1

Andre'