[Development] QML engine C++ class renaming

[Stephen Kelly]

On Thursday, February 16, 2012 14:50:32 Olivier Goffart wrote:
> On Thursday 16 February 2012 13:39:14 lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> > On 2/16/12 2:11 PM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > >On quinta-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2012 13.51.27, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > >> > If that guarantee cannot be given, I will oppose the inclusion
> > >> > of
> > >>
> > >>QtQuick1
> > >>
> > >> > as part of the Qt 5.0 release.
> > >> 
> > >> That said, even if it doesn't get released with Qt 5.0, it could
> > >> be
> > >> released  later in the future if those people who want to use it
> > >> band
> > >> together and make it work (with 5.0 or 5.x or both).
> > >
> > >Or not at all. If a group of people does not show up to maintain it,
> > >then it's
> > >possible that it never gets released. I think that's preferable than
> > >to
> > >give
> > >the false impression to our users that they can rely on this feature.
> > 
> > Well, it's working for the moment, so the question is where the person
> > comes from that is willing to keep it alive. Since we'll keep BC after
> > 5.0, the work would mainly be to adjust to changes in private headers
> > and
> > internals.
> 
> So if one wants to change the private header in qtbase while implementing a
> new feate, who is responsible to port QtQuick1? The one making the change,
> or the QtQuick1 maintainers?
> 
> Because if it is the one making the change, then it becomes a burden for the
> developers in qtbase.

Isn't the same true in the QML2 stuff?

On Thursday, February 16, 2012 13:27:43 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> especially because we 
> all know how many hacks were used in developing the QtDeclarative and how
> much  of QtCore, QtGui and QtScript internals it made use of.

Is QML2 implemented without those hacks? (I have no idea)

Or do you just expect that QML2 developers will port to new internal APIs when 
the old ones are removed? Or will developers changing qtbase internal API also 
have to port the QML2 implementation?

Thanks,

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