[Development] Namespace macros for Qt Add-Ons

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 12/9/11 11:20 AM, "Haverinen Henry (Nokia-MP-Qt/Tampere)"
<henry.haverinen at nokia.com> wrote:

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>On 12/9/11 10:50 AM, "Knoll Lars (Nokia-MP-Qt/Oslo)"
><lars.knoll at nokia.com> wrote:
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>>On 12/9/11 8:42 AM, "Haverinen Henry (Nokia-MP-Qt/Tampere)"
>><henry.haverinen at nokia.com> wrote:
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>>>Now we have macros like:
>>>
>>>QTORGANIZER_USE_NAMESPACE
>>>QTBLUETOOTH_USE_NAMESPACE
>>>Q_USE_JSONDB_NAMESPACE
>>>
>>>So it's not consistent at the moment, which makes the macros
>>>non-guessable. What would be the right thing to do here?
>>
>>I'm not a too big fan of these macros. The main question is whether they
>>are needed at all.
>>
>>It doesn't really save any effort in typing. 'using namespace
>>QtAddOn::JsonDb' is not really harder to type than the macro.
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>The current recommendation 'using namespace QtJsonDb' looks even better
>and easier to understand :)

Yes, nice and easy :)
>
>>And if we change to a different namespace it's most likely for a reason,
>>and we would likely do some API changes in the process breaking SC. In
>>that case it might be just as ok if developers have to manually change
>>the
>>using statement. At least everybody understands then that something has
>>changed.
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>We should then make sure that the documentation and examples use normal
>C++ using statements rather than any macros.

Yes. I wonder why we have the macros at all.

Cheers,
Lars