While I do not use them, I feel that deprecating such core functionality of a framework without measurable gain would seriously harm anyone using them and, most importantly, fundamentally harm the promise and dependability of Qt as a framework of choice.
> Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <development@qt-project.org> kirjoitti > 3.12.2023 kello 23.35: > > Hello, > >> On 03/12/2023 21:56, Christian Ehrlicher wrote: >> Some days ago we got an error report in the forum about QHashIterator, >> turned out to be a missing documentation for a complete class which >> remained unnoticed since Qt 6.0 >> (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-119461). >> This leads to the question if we should deprecate all java-style >> iterators since they seem to be a) not widely used and b) it looks like >> we don't support them in a way we should. >> What do you think? > > While any "serious" code should build under QT_NO_JAVA_STYLE_ITERATORS¹, how > much maintenance do they cost us? There's been virtually 0 changes on them > since Qt 6.0. > > ¹ We should of course open the chapter of having something that defines all > these QOL macros. No one should be using the Java iterators. Here's a draft: > https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/522833 > > My 2 c, > -- > Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dang...@kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer > KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company > Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.com > KDAB - The Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts > > -- > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development -- Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
