KAutoPointer: a new autoptr class for QPointer

[Thiago Macieira]

Michael Leupold wrote:
>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.

I'd rather it didn't. There are far too many automatic pointers already. 
And if QScopedPointer isn't enough, let us know.

The chance is high enough for 4.6 to be there. And people want to start 
hacking on Declarative UI already, not waiting for the release. We will 
get the beta out before 4.4, 90% sure also for the RC.

So tie the KDE 4.4 release to the Qt 4.6 release.

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