[Development] QtMultimedia BIC / header cleanliness issue

[Roscher-Nielsen Nils Christian]

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> > On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:40:23 AM Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:14:03AM -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > On segunda-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2013 15.33.59, Knoll Lars wrote:
> > > > > Finally reading up on some old emails…
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd say we add the virtual destructors. Better to deal with the fallout
> > > > > now then in the future.
> > > >
> > > > And rename the libraries to libQt5Multimedia.so.6 ?
> > >
> > > imo no. just pretend that it never happened.
> > > at this point there aren't many packages which are considered stable,
> > > and even fewer packages which depend on this module. other users
> won't
> > > be affected by this change to any noteworthy degree.
> > > however, make sure this gets into 5.0.1, which means bugging the
> release
> > > team at this point, very soon.
> >
> > That seems most reasonable to me. It's not perfect-by-the-book, but I also
> > don't think anyone would notice it given the release just in december.
> > (famous
> > last words!)
> 
> I don't think it should be done silently at all, I'm not exactly for the idea of
> even breaking BC but I can accept an exception this early in the Qt 5.x series
> if there is no other way and it is critical to be done.  But this should be clear in
> the changelog and release notes that it was done, better to be open about it
> than to hope no-one notices.

I must say I agree with Andy here. Especially as we are actually doing this development in the open. As anyone can watch us, we are setting a standard for how SW development is done, and Qt has had a high star as far as SW quality goes. This is the reason many people choose Qt. 

And I think that is goes without saying, even though not many people are likely to be using it, that especially as we do something out of the ordinary we need to properly document it. Anything else would be rude. 

Best regards
 Nils Christian Roscher-Nielsen

  – Digia, Qt


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