[Development] Proposal: Remove QML from Qt's code base (OR: Should it be a requirement that Qt Modules are interoperable?)

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri Jul 6 13:24:53 CEST 2012


On sexta-feira, 6 de julho de 2012 17.08.08, Alan Alpert wrote:
> > Most c++ developers wouldn't want to choose between stability and
> > performance.
> > I'm adventurous, just point me at the "qt private header forum" where
> > interface changes are community-driven and I'll sign up.
> > I'll understand if this has to wait until after Qt5 is released.

There's a mailing list you can join that discusses the development of all Qt 
internals... oh, right, this is it :-)

Welcome to the community-driven forum to discuss changes to anything.

> Private headers are not discussed in some private forum. They are subject
> to  the same governance structure as the rest of Qt, except that there's
> less impetus to talk about API changes. At the end of the day interface
> changes are still driven by the people who write them and the discussions
> during code reviews. The "private" refers to the level of compatibility and
> documentation guarantees (none), not the development process. For example,
> I got the impression that most of the container refactoring that Thiago was
> discussing on this list were changes to the private implementation classes,
> not the public API.

It was. The public API for QVector, QString, QByteArray, QVariant and QList 
was exactly the same.

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