[Development] Proposal: All Qt modules must use the same version number

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2014-06-30, Olivier Goffart <olivier at woboq.com> wrote:
> Totally off topic: I think using private header should be tried to be avoided. 
> In the past, we used private header inside Qt because Qt was not split that 
> much.  But one of the goal of modularisation was to allow independent release 
> of different component of Qt.  The problem is that we could not get rid of the 
> private header dependencies at the time (too much work).
> But still now, every module, even new, are using the private headers. Nothing 
> is done to try to prevent it.
>
> I think there should be some kind of long term goal to avoid using private 
> headers. 
>
> We need to find a solution so that one need not to inherit from 
> QObjectPrivate. (There is already QObject::setUserData, but it could be done 
> better i guess)
>
> We need also to identify private APIs that could be polished and made public.
> For some modules such as QtQuick this is probably too hard.
> But for new modules such as WebEngine or such, it may be possible to avoid 
> dependency on private API.

*applause*

/Sune