[Development] qsizetype

[Alex Blasche]

Hi Volker,

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>From: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer at qt.io>

>I agree that it would be great if users of Qt could flip on aggressive compile options to get warnings about narrowing-conversions. 
>But again, is that worth it? And is that more important to users than having a few releases of Qt where they don’t have to constantly 
>chase after new deprecations? I honestly doubt it. I know a few folks in the Creator and Design Studio teams that would love a Qt 
>release or two with no new warnings.

>So, I in principle agree with your plan, but let’s focus on the modules where there is at least a plausible usecase for >2G data. 
>For the rest, reach out to the respective maintainers, please.

I'd like to rephrase the above to ensure I correctly understand Volker here:

The suggestion is to do the conversion to API's which benefit from >2G data only. In such cases the changes would be done such that we only add the converted API behind guards which come into effect in Qt 7 (QT_DEPRECATED_SINCE/QT_REMOVED_SINCE(7,0)). This means we don't need fancy overload solution for getter like 

int size() vs qsizetype  size()

as we are talking about a switch at Qt 7 time. Is this your suggestion Volker? 

I would support this solution as I have the same concern about never-ending porting requirements for our users.

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Alex