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

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Apr 17 14:41:01 CEST 2012


On terça-feira, 17 de abril de 2012 07.41.26, jason.mcdonald at nokia.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Girish Ramakrishnan 
<girish at forwardbias.in> wrote:
> > > 1. qtestlib ends up exposing qpa api and thus testcases might end up
> > > being binary incompatible - This should be fixed in
> > 
> > AFAIK qtestlib doesn't promise binary compatibility (see e.g.
> > http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtqa/commit/0a67286dcc3513880dbbb01a72596b1e087
> > 41fea/diffs) so I'm not sure if this actually needs fixing - but I'll
> > leave that up to the folks working on testlib :)
> 
> That's right, testlib isn't included in the BC promises (there's way too
> much code in testlib that gets inlined via macros and no use of Qt-style
> private classes), but should still maintain source-compatibility once 5.0.0
> is out.

And even though we don't promise it, we'd like to keep it for as long as 
possible. It's very useful to swap out one Qt version for another and check 
test results.

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