[Development] Proposal: Deprecate QVector in Qt 6

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 4/24/20 8:57 AM, Joerg Bornemann wrote:
> 
> Alternatively, proposal 3 (aka "do almost nothing"):
>       template <typename T> class QVector { implementation }
>       template <typename T> using QList = QVector<T>;
> 
> No deprecation of QVector.
> No replacement of QList with QVector in our API.
> 
> Rationale: QList is our default sequential container, and in Qt6 we just
> change its implementation.

Could you please argument a bit more? In particular:

* Is it OK to live with a mixup of containers in the APIs? What's the 
downside in terms of consistency, teachability, learning, etc.?

* If I'm adding a new function, what would the coding guideline be, 
take/return QList or QVector? Why?

* What's the reason against the replacement? It's not worth it in terms 
of manpower, or another guideline?

Thanks,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company
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