[Development] important: upcoming rename of _qpa.h to _p.h

[marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com]

On 17/04/2012 03:34, ext Paul Olav Tvete wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2012 03:57:16 ext Girish Ramakrishnan wrote:
>> As per the previous discuss, I renamed all the _qpa.h to _p.h with
>> a couple of helper scripts
>
> I just added the following "-1" comment on gerrit:
>
> I do not agree with this change. We have made a difference between
> public API and plugin API, and this is different from private
> implementation detail.
>
> The rest of the Lighthouse team are also skeptical. The main issue,
> as far as I can see, is documentation. This can be solved much in a
> much simpler way by using the \internal tag, as discussed earlier.
> There should also be a warning in the _qpa.h files, but it shouldn't
> be the "don't even think of using this file" warning from the _p.h
> file; these files are there for platform plugin authors to use.

Also remember that yes, we don't promise BC from 5.0.0, but at some 
point we would want the QPA api to stabilize at let it keep the same 
promise as the rest of Qt, don't we?

At which point, we would have to rename the files again?

-- 
.marius