Re: [Development] The future of smart pointers in Qt API

[Fawzi Mohamed]

Hi Daniel,
I agree with most of your choices, and yes there will be cases where a change 
in QT is required.
What I did not fully understand is why you did not go the whole way and used 
unique_ptr also  in QObject, as Vitaly suggested: your invariant is either 
owned by a unique_ptr or a QObject, if QObject uses unique_ptr then it reduces 
to unique_ptr ownership.
Do you get too much boilerplate, or need to continuously get the raw pointer?
Maybe you told already, and I missed it, but that could also show the issues of 
using unique_ptr.
To me it seems that it makes ownership in our API clearer, and that is a win, 
but André’s comments I think show his concern with bloating up code and 
conceptual burden for little or no gain.
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