[Interest] move methods in QList

[Elvis Stansvik]

2017-10-11 22:54 GMT+02:00 Philippe <philwave at gmail.com>:
> 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"

Ah right, that's true.

Thiago, was that alternative discussed during the Developer Days?

Elvis

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