KAutoPointer: a new autoptr class for QPointer

[Michael Leupold]

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Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Michael Leupold wrote:
>>Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> Stefan Majewsky wrote:
>>>>Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 19:19:43 schrieb David Jarvie:
>>>>> Ideally this class would be provided by Qt, but in the meantime it
>>>>> seems useful to provide it in kdelibs.
>>>>
>>>>Ideally you should request to merge this class into Qt. If this class
>>>> is included in kdelibs, "the meantime" would be at least until KDE 5.
>>>
>>> Agreed. Especially when we are adding stuff like that. See
>>> http://qt.gitorious.org/+qt-s60-developers/qt/qt-
>>> s60/blobs/master/src/corelib/tools/qscopedpointer.h
>>
>>Approximately when will Qt 4.6 be released? I understand that having
>> this upstream would be better but this really makes fixing some issues
>> (eg. dialog on stack) a lot easier as creating memory-leaks is a lot
>> harder than when using QPointer.
> 
> You know better than to ask when we will release. We will release when
> it's ready, not sooner. And there's still quite a bit of work to be done
> for S60 and Declarative UI.

I wanted to make sure. My question was certainly not meant rethorical. But I 
should probably have rephrased to "how big is the chance we will get the 
feature in time for 4.4?".

> And schedules slip. If I say we will release in October, it could happen
> in December. If I say December, it could be March/2010. if I say
> February/2010, it could be April. The ballpark is between October and
> February. I would give a 60-70% confidence that it's released in time for
> KDE 4.4.
> 
> PS: The current feature freeze target date is in about 2 months, but it
> too can slip.

I'd then rather see KAutoPointer in trunk. Maintaining it until KDE5 seems 
to be less work than putting thought into rewriting methods using manually 
deleted QPointers.

Regards,
Michael
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