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

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Girish Ramakrishnan
<girish at forwardbias.in> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Girish Ramakrishnan
> <girish at forwardbias.in> wrote:
>> 2012/4/20 Stephen Kelly <stephen.kelly at kdab.com>:
>>> On Friday, April 20, 2012 07:35:39 lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Proposal sounds ok to me as well. If someone still has concerns, please
>>>
>>>> speak up.
>>>
>>>
>>> I lost track of what the proposal currently is. Could it be restated?
>>
>> 1. We drop _qpa completely. So, it would become qplatformbackingstore.h
>> 2. We teach syncqt that qplatform* is special and we move them all to
>> a special qpa/ directory. So, instead of #include
>> <QtGui/private/qplatformbackingstore.h>, it will be #include
>> <QtGui/qpa/qplatformbackingstore.h>
>> 3. We teach syncqt to create <QtGui/QPA> or #include <QPA> headers. (I
>> think we need the latter since qpa headers are not restricted to gui)
>> 4. We teach the world that qpa is not meant for apps.
>> 5. Add a more benign header pointing out the fact that these files are
>> qpa files.
>> 6. Rename the handle() to platformXXX() since it's easy to educate
>> that anything that has platform in it is out of reach of app
>> developers.
>>
>
> The change is ready at
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,23443. It implements 1,2
> above. It awaits gunnar/paul's final input.
>
> The change is source compatible, all plugins should continue to
> compile after the change with no changes.
>

The change landed. For some reason, the ci is failing compile in all
other modules. Works locally with shadow builds but not on CI. I am on
it.

Girish