[Qt-interest] What is likely to be in Qt 4.8?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 25 de February de 2011 00:41:08 Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 00:35, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday, 25 de February de 2011 00:18:24 Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> >> How does the resource area fit into that view of the QFileSystem?
> > 
> > It's kept for compatibility.
> 
> So is it then treated as a special case, with the actual abstraction gutted?

More or less.

The abstraction for the classes deriving from QAbstractFileEngine is still 
there. Compatibility is retained for existing applications.

However, the presence of any file engine (besides the resources one) will 
trigger the old, slower, compatibility codepaths. So if you want the benefit of 
the new and improved performant file I/O support, remove all file engines from 
your code.

PS: why are you guys asking me questions instead of testing Qt 4.8? The code 
is already there. It's not like we hide the development without cause...

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