[Qt-interest] anyone know why QDir::mkpath() isn't static?

[Thiago Macieira]

Em terça-feira, 12 de abril de 2011, às 09:19:38, Scott Aron Bloom escreveu:
> I have found there are a number of little idiosyncrasies in the QFile,
> QFileInfo, and QDir code that can be confusing and worst case create a
> bug..  You just get used to them
> 
> With mkpath... I would prefer if there was a static as well as a non-static
> member...  I wouldn't even mind if the QDir threw an assert on the static
> member if the path sent in was relative.

For those interested, we're still having a discussion on the ugliness and 
wrongs of QFile, QDir and QFileInfo in the #qt-labs channel. There's a lot 
that could be done better and the developers agree.

The question is: when the time comes for when a source-incompatible is 
permitted, what is better, to keep compatibility with thousands of existing 
programs or to make a new, better but incompatible API?

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