[Development] Either remove or make QZip{Reader, Writer} official

[Scott Bloom]

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From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2026 07:47
To: development at qt-project.org; Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com>
Subject: Re: [Development] Either remove or make QZip{Reader, Writer} official

On Monday, 15 June 2026 04:16:34 Pacific Daylight Time Volker Hilsheimer via 
Development wrote:
> > On 15 Jun 2026, at 13:01, Ivan Solovev <ivan.solovev at qt.io> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the patches are approved for a couple of weeks as of now.
> > Can we proceed with merging them?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Ivan
> 
> Yes please.

I was waiting for feature freeze (both ours and $DAYJOB). Done now.

I will submit issues to the few projects we've found on GitHub using it, 
advising that the class will be gone in Qt 6.13.

Scott: do you want to start a playground project to rewrite the class from 
scratch? If so, I can advise those projects of this and that they ought to 
contribute.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.
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Thiago,

Absolutely, Ill contact you directly off list to move forward.

Scott