[Development] QLibraryInfo::path(): to deprecate or not to deprecate?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Sun Jul 26 20:09:20 CEST 2026


In favour of QLibraryInfo::paths()
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/744726

The correct thing to do is to deprecate, and force everyone who is using it to 
adjust to having more than one path. In a lot of cases, it's already used in a 
loop, so the fix is simple. In others, it's the right thing to do. And in the 
rest, it documents in the code that you're taking the first and ignoring the 
remainder, which is what path() does.

But it produces a lot of warnings in examples and tests.

Do we want this?

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.
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