[Development] Un-messifying Qt Quick

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On Monday 24 September 2012 15:07:06 Thiago Macieira 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

Well, in Qt5, QtQuick has been split up into libQtQml and libQtQuick, so it 
can't just be renamed back to libQtDeclarative.

Regards,
Thomas
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