[Qt-interest] Clarification on "out of scope" closed bug

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 19 de January de 2011 14:10:59 Andre Somers wrote:
> Being honest after the fact is not much use. What I mean is: I think you
> (not you personally, but Qt in general) should add warnings in the
> documentation if classes are considdered end-of life, "mistakes" or for
> some other reason won't receive bugfixes anymore or are for other reasons
> better to stay away from in new code. Better yet: that should be announced
> ahead of time, before such support actually stops. Qt decided to
> release the code (and I remember showed it off even, I can still see the
> cool demo's where a Grahics view item rotated to show it's backside to
> reveal a widget-based form to edit something). That, IMHO, also means
> supporting it.

We're doing that.

But you'll understand that such a communication needs to be done with care. 
People won't like some of the things that are in the list.

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