[Development] Qt Quick Controls for Embedded

[Frederik Gladhorn]

On Wednesday, April 08, 2015 04:30:23 PM Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:18:27PM +0200, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> > we want to keep a clean separation in the qtquickcontrols git module
> > and will move the code around to accommodate both modules within the
> > repository.  The plan is to create two top level directories in the
> > repository: a controls1 directory containing everything currently in
> > the repository (src/tests/examples), and a controls2 directory to
> > contain the new controls.
> 
> what's the point of keeping them in the same repo when you split it at
> the top anyway? you just break the uniformity of the repo layout, which
> is both ugly and traditionally a nightmare build system wise (cf.
> webkit).

The idea was to make code-sharing easy and to lessen the burden on everyone to 
check out yet another repository etc.
As for the build system, I see it similar to how the qt5.git meta module 
behaves - just two subdirs for the qtquickcontrols repo and that's it.

We haven't actually done the merge yet, just tested that it would be feasible, 
so this is not set in stone.

It seems that re-using the name will also cause trouble with documentation and 
tooling, so ideally we find the perfect new name for both module and 
repository. Sadly we didn't manage to come up with a great name in a few hours 
of brain storming. Maybe we just need someone from the outside to come along 
with a great idea :)

Cheers,
Frederik