[Qt-interest] QAbstractFileEngine problems

[Jason H]

Why not just keep what they have now... If Qt is moving to open governance, 
can't we just elect to keep it? It is fine if you deprecate it, as long as 
*something* replaces it, hopefully for the better. But to drop something because 
it is "slow" and replace it with nothing isn't really a good reason to 1) do it 
then and 2) do it ever.

My current thinking is a VFS layer is cool as sh!t because it abstracts the 
structured storage of binary?) data from the implementation. Who doesn't want 
that?! KIOSlaves are the bomb!

Also Scott, since the code is already LGPL'd why not keep it?

Offtopic:
So far, Qt and I seem to be on a path to parting ways. QDom and 
QAbstractFileEngine. Why do my projects always collide with the future of Qt? 
What am I doing wrong? I am hoping that things like open governance means we get 
to say, no, "we want to keep this" a little while longer... At least with XML 
there are other APIs that can be adapted to XML processing as a whole is not 
dropped.






----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Aron Bloom <Scott.Bloom at onshorecs.com>
To: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>; qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Wed, July 7, 2010 12:42:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] QAbstractFileEngine problems

-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com
[mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 9:33 AM
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] QAbstractFileEngine problems

On Wednesday 7. July 2010 15.18.07 Eric Landuyt wrote:
> 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).

Current thinking is we don't want a VFS layer.

So, if you want VFS, you need to implement it by yourself.

Or you can implement a Qt VFS layer and contribute it to Qt and maintain
it there.

--
Along those lines...

Is there a chance, that you could open up the source code to it?  It
would also be great if you could open up the commercial version with the
built in designer...

Then the community could support it :)

Scott

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