[Development] Asking for a FF exception for ICU based QStringConverter

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 8 June 2022 07:17:29 PDT Fabian Kosmale wrote:
> - There are concerns that mixing Qt versions might lead to an unbounded
> memory leak with the current implementation. I don't think that's actually
> the case (but if it is, then we need a different enough approach that this
> most likely has to be deferred to Qt 6.5 at least).

To be clear for everyone: this can happen (depending on where we introduce the 
new API) if some code is using QStringConverter with codec names that it 
currently doesn't support. This is likely to be very limited, because that 
code is currently not working (it always produces an invalid encoder/decoder). 
That probably means it's blind porting from QTextCodec which did support more 
codecs. The fix is to simply recompile.

> Given the above, would it be possible to grant a feature freeze exemption
> until end of next week for this feature?

As a maintainer of the module in question, I'm ok with this. It's a new 
feature, but it has no new API.

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