From kde-core-devel  Thu May 26 15:57:30 2011
From: Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:57:30 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: getting rid of qt3support in kde-workspace
Message-Id: <201105261757.31288.l.savernik () aon ! at>
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Am Mittwoch, 25. Mai 2011 schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
> No, I'm not joking. If QWidget/QPainter are declared "done" now, then with
> Qt6, they will be gone, just like qt3support will be gone in Qt5. And that
> will be in a relatively short period of time: five years or so. Which
> might sound like a long time, but isn't when porting complex, real world
> applications.

Well this really sounds like a bad joke. I took from Qt5's message QPainter is 
"done", i. e. frozen for good.

Now you're saying that QPainter will be marked deprecated in Qt5 and dropped 
in Qt6?

That'd be similar to POSIX proclaiming to deprecate "open()" and drop it next 
year.

Can any Trolltech official confirm that QPainter is going to stay just like 
open() in POSIX, stable, non-morphing, and reliable? Or confirm the opposite?

mfg
	Leo