[Development] Deprecated/Obsolete API that survived the transition from Qt 5 to Qt 6

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Apr 7 15:55:05 CEST 2021


On Mittwoch, 7. April 2021 15:18:10 CEST Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development 
wrote:
> Il 07/04/21 14:56, Sze Howe Koh ha scritto:
> > Is it acceptable to remove them during Qt 6's lifetime? Or should we
> > wait till Qt 7?
> 
> It's for Qt 7, I'm afraid. We're bound to an API/ABI compatibility
> promise. And not marking things _in code_ but only in docs isn't good
> enough.
> 

We remove and change private API all the time. If it was declared
deprecated long ago, we could argue it is kind of private in qt6.

'Allan




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