On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Leo Savernik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Yep it seems so. > > Now you're saying that QPainter will be marked deprecated in Qt5 and dropped > in Qt6? Dropped doesn't mean you won't get any replacement. You can get something better. > > That'd be similar to POSIX proclaiming to deprecate "open()" and drop it next > year. POSIX is a bad example. It's not a "product" per say. > > 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? There will still be a need for a simple drawing API so yes there will be something. > > mfg > Leo >
