[bt-devel] Using QSharedPointer instead of boost pointer

[Martin Gruner]

Eeli,

thanks for the suggestion.

The boost dependency is removed.

mg

On Thursday 23 April 2009 17:40:31 Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> ATM the only thing we use the boost library for is the scoped pointer.
> Qt 4.5 offers QSharedPointer. The documentation says:
>
> "QSharedPointer::~QSharedPointer ()
> Destroys this QSharedPointer object. If it is the last reference to the
> pointer stored, this will delete the pointer as well."
>
> And:
>
> "The QSharedPointer is an automatic, shared pointer in C++. It behaves
> exactly like a normal pointer for normal purposes, including respect for
> constness.
>
> QSharedPointer will delete the pointer it is holding when it goes out of
> scope, provided no other QSharedPointer objects are referencing it."
>
> It looks like we could use this instead of the boost::scoped_ptr. At
> least for Windows it would make things easier by reducing dependencies.
> But it requires Qt 4.5 - 4.4 is not enough. This could be done also with
> #ifdefs, depending on the Qt version, so that if Qt >= 4.5 boost is not
> needed.
>
> Martin, you have used the scoped_ptr more. What do you think?
>
> --Eeli Kaikkonen
>
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