Deprecate KRandomSequence ?

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dilluns, 29 de juny de 2020, a les 22:27:44 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va escriure:
> QRandomGenerator is very similar in which you can give it a seed and get randomness out of it.
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> Things that QRandomGenerator doesn't have:
>  * getBool(); -> should be easy enough to port to bounded(2) == 1
>  * randomize(QList) -> We could add namespace function in KRandom

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/-/merge_requests/7

Here the first step of adding a randomize to KRandom.

Cheers,
  Albert

>  * modulate() -> Couldn't find any user, so no worries if we drop it
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> Benefits of deprecation:
>  * Less manintaince
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> Problems of deprecation:
>  * Moving from KRadomSequence(FIXED_SEED) to QRandomGenerator(FIXED_SEED) will probably generate a different sequence, so if you need to 100% generate the same sequence for all your app versions (e.g. for a game or something) moving may not be "possible"
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> Ideas? Comments?
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> Cheers,
>   Albert
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