[Development] important: upcoming rename of _qpa.h to _p.h
Girish Ramakrishnan
girish at forwardbias.in
Tue Apr 17 16:19:27 CEST 2012
Hi Marius,
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:03 AM, <marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com> wrote:
> 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?
This is how we have always done development in Qt. It starts out with
_p.h and then becomes .h :)
Girish
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