[Development] Proposal: Deprecate QVector in Qt 6

[André Pönitz]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:02:04AM +0200, André Pönitz wrote:
> 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

To refine: +1 for staying with QList as the container of choice, and
making QVector an alias for that, but I would not deprecate QVector.

Andre'