[Development] Requesting feature freeze exception to container-assign epic

Volker Hilsheimer volker.hilsheimer at qt.io
Mon Jun 5 09:13:59 CEST 2023



> On 3 Jun 2023, at 16:54, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, 3 June 2023 02:54:49 PDT Marc Mutz via Development wrote:
>> The container-assign epic is partially merged. What's left is
>> QString::assign(), and there only the assign(it, it) part. If we release
>> as-is (with step 1, cf. below), there's a gap in the QString::assign()
>> overload set vis-a-vis all other container classes (Qt or STL).
> 
> Given it's partially done, I would support completing the feature. I would 
> even go far enough to say that it's now not a *new* feature you're still be 
> merging, but completing what you've already got in.

Agree, let’s finish this, what seems to be missing are API overloads, documentation updates, and fixes rather than genuinely new functionality.

Volker



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