> On 28 May 2026, at 02:47, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, 27 May 2026 15:55:39 Pacific Daylight Time Ville Voutilainen > wrote: >>> It would be preferable to have a replacement than not, but it will depend >>> on there being a volunteer or two to write it. >> >> How does the suggested removal work, when it breaks >> >>> QZipWriter is used inside of Qt, in the ODF file exporter in QtGui >> >> ? > > QZipWriter is moved into QtGui and unexported: > https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/737152
I have approved the removal and move. This functionality is not something that has to be part of Qt, much less Qt Core. This has kitchen sink (and bit rot) written all over it, making it more a liability than anything else. Scott, appreciate you volunteering; I think you and others will find that using a dedicated and actively maintained library will bring you more joy, and certainly more security. That said, feel free to take the code from Qt and compile it into your own application. And if anyone wants to implement a Qt library for handling archives and Microsoft ***x files etc, then go ahead, of course. But it won’t be in Core, and probably doesn’t even have to be part of a Qt distribution that has to provide an increasingly substantial set of cyber-security guarantees to users. Volker -- Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
