[Development] Un-messifying Qt Quick

[Knoll Lars]

On Sep 24, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
 wrote:

> [Related to the co-installation and hierarchy discussions]
> 
> Through a series of well-intentioned decisions, we ended up having:
> 
> 			Qt Quick 1 (Qt4)	Qt Quick 1 (Qt 5)	Qt Quick 2
> QT +=		declarative			quick1				quick
> library		libQtDeclarative	libQtQuick1			libQtQuick
> include		QtDeclarative/		QtQuick1/			QtQuick
> 			QDeclarativeXxx		QDeclarativeXxx		QQuickXxx
> import		$prefix/imports		$prefix/imports		$prefix/imports
> 			QtQuick 1.[01]		QtQuick 1.[01]		QtQuick 2.0
> Git repo	qt					qtquick1			qtdeclarative
> 
> The Git repository is a completely internal implementation detail and 
> irrelevant to our users. Therefore, we don't need to change anything.
> 
> The library name is often not used directly, but I'd like to include it in the 
> discussion.
> 
> All the rest of the settings are user-visible and any change is a source-
> incompatible change. I'd like to propose very simply that:
> 
> 	Qt Quick 1 has the same source settings in both Qt 4 and Qt 5
> 
> Concretely:
> 1) rename the library back to libQtDeclarative
>    this also renames the pkg-config file back to QtDeclarative.pc
>    [if my other proposal is accepted, then these files will get a "5"]
> 2) rename the include dir back to QtDeclarative/
> 3) rename the qmake module file back to qt_declarative.pri (so we get 
>    QT += declarative back)

I tend to agree here. So a +1 from my side, even though it'll mean some pain in the short term for us.

Cheers,
Lars

> In addition, my hierarchy proposal also proposes splitting the import dirs, 
> but let's continue that discussion there.
> -- 
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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