[Announcement] Qt6 Support by removing deprecated functions

[basyskom-dege]

Since Qt6 was released recently, it would be a good to support that. The existing Qt5 generator uses some deprecated functions that are not supported in Qt6. I replaced them with the equivalent Qt6 functions. The new functions work with Qt5 aswell, except of the Qt::SectionSkipEmpty Flag ( equal to 0x01) that was in the QString namespace in Qt5. I inserted a preprocessor variable to support both, Qt5 and Qt6:

#if QT_VERSION >= 0x060000
    #define SKIP_EMPTY_PARTS Qt::SkipEmptyParts
#else
    #define SKIP_EMPTY_PARTS QString::SkipEmptyParts
#endif

I created a PR with those changes. Since the generator is called cpp-qt5-generator it would make sense to add a new Qt6 generator or rename it.

[wing328]

What about renaming the generator from cpp-qt5-client to cpp-qt-client to start with as the upcoming release is v5.0.0 major release and we can still include breaking changes (generator renaming)? That will require you to update your PR later though.

[basyskom-dege]

Yes renaming would be better than a second generator. I guess that wont be a big task and changing that PR later on wont be neither. I will take a further look on renaming on monday.

[wing328]

OK. I will try to come up with a PR over the weekend.

[basyskom-dege]

should i wait for the PR #8234 to be finished before renaming?
EDIT: I will continue to work on the renaming on january.

[MartinDelille]

We might close this issue since #8234 is fixed.