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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KAutoPointer: a new autoptr class for QPointer
From:       Harri Porten <porten () froglogic ! com>
Date:       2009-07-10 16:36:21
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0907101833150.17935 () greco ! froglogic ! com
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Thiago Macieira wrote:

>> BTW, Qt has broken source compatibility even for the rather trivial
>> container classes three times already making it impossible (much to my
>> regret) to argue in favor of Qt's containers in discussions about using
>> the STL containers instead.
>
> I don't recall of any important breakage in Qt 4. We're very careful about
> that.

I guess Ingo meant the three major breakages between 1/2, 3 and 4. As much 
as I'd like to use Qt container classes everywhere (including non-GUI) 
code the track record is rather weak compared to STL containers and other 
libraries. GUIs come and go - code under the hood often has to live much 
longer :)

Harri.
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