[Development] QML engine C++ class renaming

[Alan Alpert]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:41:06 ext Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Olivier Goffart <olivier at woboq.com> wrote:
> > Anyway, this is a compatibility library. It's sole role is to be there to
> > help transition (just like qt3support was)
> 
> I had the impression that most people agreed that qt3support was a
> mistake. Are we going to take the same strategy for Qt5? :)

There is an important difference here, which is that we're looking at QML APIs 
instead of C++ APIs. The way the QML versioning system is meant to work is 
that you have multiple versions of your QML module in the one library/plugin 
and pick out the right one using an import statement. This is different from 
the C++ library approach of having one version which is forwards and backwards 
compatible.

Now the fact that the C++ APIs are being maintained as well, and in this 
somewhat drastic manner, for an obsolete major version... it's not the ideal 
case that QML versioning planned for. So we'll see how effective this approach 
is. But the ideal that we're aiming for is with QML versioning is that you 
choose to upgrade at an application level after the library version goes up, 
instead of being forced into breakage. That requires something like QtQuick 
1.0 sticking around for a while. Hopefully the next major version won't need 
so drastic a rewrite.

-- 
Alan Alpert
Senior Engineer
Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks