The watchdog was used in a few places as a shortcut to skip reading data. Further, it was used in some places in the UI to display connectivity.
But it also introduced quite some complexity. In some cases it can be fragile: network accessibilty cannot be looked up on all platforms/hardware constellations. The connectivity could change between the last watchdog call and the real call. Hence all readers must still handle the case where the connection fails.
To simplify swift and further reduce the dependency onto the project infrastructure (pings etc.), this PR removes the watchdog. This also removes the QNetworkConfigurationManager, which is deprecated and not available with Qt6.
The watchdog was used in a few places as a shortcut to skip reading data. Further, it was used in some places in the UI to display connectivity. But it also introduced quite some complexity. In some cases it can be fragile: network accessibilty cannot be looked up on all platforms/hardware constellations. The connectivity could change between the last watchdog call and the real call. Hence all readers must still handle the case where the connection fails.
To simplify swift and further reduce the dependency onto the project infrastructure (pings etc.), this PR removes the watchdog. This also removes the
QNetworkConfigurationManager, which is deprecated and not available with Qt6.