[Development] Dropping the Q prefix from class names

Giuseppe D'Angelo dangelog at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 17:49:07 CEST 2012


2012/4/1  <joao.abecasis at nokia.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> Earlier today I pushed some changes to Gerrit, Thiago suggested I bring
> it up on the mailing list before he can approve them. Given the impact
> these changes have on user code it's important that we get this merged
> to master and out in the alpha as quickly as possible.
>
> For reference the changes can be viewed here:
>
>     http://codereview.qt-project.org/22063
>     http://codereview.qt-project.org/22064
>
> The first one introduces a Q namespace, which replaces the Q prefix in
> Qt5. The second patch drops the prefix in class names. This brings the
> C++ API more in line with the QML/JavaScript one and will hopefully help
> move all remaining C++ developers to JavaScript.

I like it, but... sorry, you're after the feature freeze.
This is Qt 6.0 material.

Please resubmit in a couple of months, after 5.0 is branched off and
master starts targeting 6.0 (cf. the earlier discussion on marketing@,
Qt is adopting the major-version-increment scheme).

-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo



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