[Qt-interest] QAbstractFileEngine problems

[Eric Landuyt]

Hello,

Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 8:07:22 AM, you wrote:
TM> Please stop using file engines. They are a feature we want to get rid of.

Too bad ! Please do not deprecate/remove this (or at least not before Qt 5 ;).

As Jason, we are also using these in our application: the file engine
architecture allowed us to implement a "recovery filesystem" on top of Qt,
and auto-magically reuse many classes like QDirIterator, QImage, ... on top
of our internal view of the recovery results. So this architecture helped us
really much, and is one of the main points why we decided to switch to Qt
some years ago.
File engines are of real use to anyone wanting to implement things like
"virtual files": take KIO slaves as an example!

Cheers,

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Eric Landuyt, Developer - mailto:eric at datarescue.be
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