[Qt-interest] QAbstractFileEngine problems

[Jason H]

I'd have to agree with Eric. Unless something better replaces it, we're left to write filesystem drivers for all various operating systems. I would hope that it would be relaxed my something incredibly abstract such that we would only have to provide Minor implementation details. But like a vfs in a qmap, http, zip file, or any other serialization.

-J


On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Eric Landuyt <eric at datarescue.be> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 9:08:16 AM, you wrote:
> TM> We will deprecate them before Qt 5. Nothing gets removed before Qt 5 though.
> TM> However, we will have to maintain the old code paths because the file engines
> TM> are part of the API today.
> TM> What will happen is that the file engine codepath will not be optimised like
> TM> the new direct I/O code will be.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying this.
> Anyway, is something else planned to support this kind of virtual filesystems
> in Qt 5, or should we prepare to reimplement all this by ourselves ? (in this
> case, Qt 5's filesystem API would really represent a huge step back from my
> point of view).
> 
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