[Interest] Qt containers deprecated with 5.0?

[Bob Hood]

On 11/27/2016 12:58 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On domingo, 27 de novembro de 2016 10:32:23 PST Bob Hood wrote:
>> "Historically, Qt used to provide functions which were direct equivalents of
>> many STL algorithmic functions. Starting with Qt 5.0, you are instead
>> encouraged to use directly the implementations available in the STL; most
>> of the Qt ones have been deprecated (although they are still available to
>> keep the old code compiling)."
> The algorithms were deprecated because there aren't two ways of implementing a
> binary search. So the Qt implementations were direct duplication, no way
> around them.
>
> The only thing that changed is that the Qt functions had a couple of
> convenience overloads that operated on the entire container, as opposed to an
> iterator pair. Many people found them, well, convenient.
>
> The containers, however, are quite different. The two most important
> differences are:
>   1) implicit sharing
>   2) better naming of functions
>
> [#2: obviously, in our opinion]

Of course, and thanks for the clarification.  I wanted to make sure I had my 
team follow the recommended course of action with regard to this when we start 
any new Qt5-based development.