[C++-sig] Can QPointer be used as a smart pointer?

[David Abrahams]

Eric Jardim <ericjardim at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The Qt4 library have a custom smart pointer type template, QPointer<...>:
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qt4-intro.html#qpointer-t
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.0/qpointer.html
>
> Is it compatible with boost.python, like smart_ptr and auto_ptr are, or do I
> have to register (if possible) it?

You need to specialize pointee<QPointer<T> > so its nested ::type is
T.  Aside from that it should be exactly as compatible with
Boost.Python as auto_ptr is.

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