[Interest] Avoiding a bearer thread in normal userland apps

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 9 April 2020 08:41:51 -03 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As far as I understand Qt's bearer management feature is not relevant for
> desktop (including laptop) systems where connectivity is handled by the
> system and a priori permanent. So why does an application that just wants
> to do simple stuff over a network connection (and use Qt APIs for that)
> need to spawn a special thread? Is there a way to indicate that you have no
> use for the bearer stuff and not have it waste resources?

The bearer API is being removed from 6.0.

Delete the plugins (or don't deploy them) when deploying your application. 
That solves the thread problem.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel System Software Products