Use of Boost library classes in kdecore?

[Thiago Macieira]

David Jarvie wrote:
>QExplicitlySharedDataPointer would be suitable to use with a single
> class, but it still doesn't cope with implicit conversions between base
> and derived classes.

By the way, there are reasons why neither QSharedDataPointer nor 
QExplicitlySharedDataPointer work on implicit conversions.

The first is because it's not intended for that purpose. You're supposed 
to put those around Private-style classes, in the d-pointer.

The second is because it requires a template member function, which is not 
available in all platforms Qt supports (old MSVC 6.0). There are a couple 
of TMF in Qt, but all of those come with a warning that it won't work in 
all platforms, and all have a non-member equivalent (e.g., 
QVariant::value<T> and qVariantValue<T>).

This restriction doesn't apply to KDE, though.

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