ping

why aren't you standardizing on std::string? that's cleaner than raw char pointers.
i know we discussed this before to some degree, but i don't remember the particulars.

In D12745#268946, @ossi wrote:

why aren't you standardizing on std::string? that's cleaner than raw char pointers.
i know we discussed this before to some degree, but i don't remember the particulars.

It was pointed out that using std::string made the API stand out a bit (which btw is true). That's why I used char pointers here.

but so does using raw pointers. as the stl is available here anyway, it seems like the preferable abstraction layer.

edit: the point of the old discussion was that having a non-qt api stands out, which is consistent with what i wrote above. basing the api on stl would be perfectly reasonable given the requirement of having to make it qt-free.

@dfaure can you have a look at this?

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