[Interest] move methods in QList

Philippe philwave at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 22:54:35 CEST 2017


On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:32:49 +0200
Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another thing for you Qt devs: Qt's APIs are littered with QList.
> Guiseppe mention in his slides that it's out of the question to change
> that for Qt 6, because it would be such a big API break. But, when
> should such a change be made, if not during a major version bump?
> There's nothing more major than that. The only more careful approach I
> can think of is deprecation over a full major cycle, only to be
> changed in the next. Or are we going to live with a Qt API that
> interfaces using a discouraged container forever?

A possible answer is on the same slide:
"QList might simply become a typedef for QVector"

Philippe




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