[Development] Namespacing Qt modules

[Laszlo Papp]

Thanks for bringing this up.

There was also a thread about namespaces last October:
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2012-October/007421.html


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There's a discussion at
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,62152 about namespaces.
> Someone referred to a recent IRC discussion (is there a log
> available?), and it sounds like people want to wrap modules in
> namespaces. There's also an official guideline written over a year ago
> advocating namespaces, which seems to have been largely ignored:
>
> http://qt-project.org/wiki/Creating-a-new-module-or-tool-for-Qt#03fa1e2be330cf40074c0a55dafe27c4
>
> I guess the main questions are: Do we want namespaces? If so, are we
> in a position to start enforcing them in new modules? (The Gerrit
> discussion mentions problems with signal-slot connections and QML type
> usage)
>
> Going into details, do we want to allow nested namespaces? How can
> this be implemented in a way that fits nicely with existing
> namespaces? I ask these because we already have namespaces that cover
> subsets of modules, which don't fit the
> one-namespace-to-rule-each-module model:
>     - Qt Multimedia has 3: QMultimedia, QMediaMetaData, and QAudio
>     - Qt Network has 1: QSsl
>
>
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe
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