[Interest] Removal of convenience functions?

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 03/07/2019 10:39, Michael Sué wrote:
> QDir &QDir::operator=(const QString &path) was removed in 5.13.0, a simple convenience function. What was the problem?
> 
> Will everyone have to reinvent the wheel to get back such a convenience function in the future of Qt?

It was not removed; you can still use it today. But note that it has 
been deprecated since Qt 4 (and 5.13 added proper deprecation markers).

The direct replacement is setPath().

HTH,
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