Re: [Development] Deprecation/removal model going into Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > The overall goal here is to make sure that we don’t have to carry poorly > designed architecture or APIs around with us throughout the Qt 6 series, > and as long as we care about binary and source compatibility within a > major series, doing what we can for Qt 6.0 (and do

Re: [Development] Deprecation/removal model going into Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
Philippe wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 14:36:12 +0200 > André Pönitz wrote: > >> So it might make even sense to step back further and start with >> asking "What should Qt be?" before trying to find out on whether >> a specific API is poorly designed or not, as that decision depends >> on the purpo

Re: [Development] Qt 5 types under consideration for deprecation / removal in Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread Bernhard Lindner
Am Mittwoch, den 29.05.2019, 23:34 +0200 schrieb Mutz, Marc via Development: > > So, yes, this is borne out of frustration with the lack of maintenance > > of QtCore plumbing. I don't see that changing and I acknowledge and > > understand that the focus of development has shifted towards QML. >

Re: [Development] Qt 5 types under consideration for deprecation / removal in Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread Jean-Michaël Celerier
Here's a PS1 script that more or less does it (god that language is awful to use) : xxd.ps1: param([String]$path) $bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($path); $size = $bytes.length; $bytes = (($bytes | %{ "0x" + $_ ; }) | Out-String); $content = $bytes -replace "`r",", " -replace "`n","" -re

Re: [Development] Qt 5 types under consideration for deprecation / removal in Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Saturday, 1 June 2019 03:46:34 PDT André Pönitz wrote: > I am getting mildly irritated by those ongoing suggestions (not just > yours) to use anything but Qt to get stuff done, even Qt's own tasks. > It's sending an odd message. > > Sure, one can pull e.g. any "plain C++" replacement for QXmlSt

Re: [Development] Deprecation/removal model going into Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 5/31/19 4:24 PM, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > Nobody is forced to move to Qt 6 right away; Qt 5.15 is an LTS with > three years maintenance. We are not expecting lots of people to jump > on Qt 6.0 anyway (because .0, and not an LTS release anyway), so when > an API was marked as deprecated makes p

Re: [Development] Deprecation/removal model going into Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread Philippe
On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 14:36:12 +0200 André Pönitz wrote: > So it might make even sense to step back further and start with > asking "What should Qt be?" before trying to find out on whether > a specific API is poorly designed or not, as that decision depends > on the purpose. I second a recent quo

Re: [Development] Deprecation/removal model going into Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 01:24:13PM +, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: > The overall goal here is to make sure that we don’t have to carry > poorly designed architecture or APIs around with us throughout the Qt > 6 series, and as long as we care about binary and source compatibility > within a major se

Re: [Development] Deprecation/removal model going into Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:50:45PM +0200, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development wrote: > I guess that the idea is that the port to Qt 6 can then happen in multiple > steps: > > 1) port to Qt 5.latest; > 2) (enable and) fix all deprecation warnings; > 3) port to Qt 6. > If this is still the plan, I m

Re: [Development] Qt 5 types under consideration for deprecation / removal in Qt 6

2019-06-01 Thread André Pönitz
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:22:03AM +0200, Tobias Hunger wrote: > Hi Thiago, > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 8:18 PM Thiago Macieira > wrote: > > On Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:33:23 PDT Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development > > wrote: > > > 2) should QRegExp stay in bootstrap? I have no idea of what's happ