[Development] Deprecating modules with 5.5

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Wed Mar 18 09:33:20 CET 2015


On Wednesday 18 March 2015, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> Den 17-03-2015 kl. 23:45 skrev Thiago Macieira:
> > On Tuesday 17 March 2015 17:14:38 Jan Kundrát wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 08:33:46 CET, Knoll Lars wrote:
> >>> * Qt WebKit
> >> 
> >> While I understand the reasons on why you want to remove this one, I
> >> think that this goes against the promise of compatibility at [1]:
> >> 
> >> "Qt essentials define the foundation of Qt on all platforms. They are
> >> available on all supported development platforms and on the tested
> >> target platforms. They will remain source and binary compatible during
> >> Qt 5."
> >> 
> >> Both "Qt WebKit" and "Qt WebKit Widgets" are listed under Essentials.
> >> QtScript and QtDeclarative are listed as Addons, and "could probably
> >> go".
> >> 
> >> You're of course free to do whatever you want to do -- it's just that
> >> the project has promised that this won't happen.
> > 
> > We promised not to break source or binary compatibility. Where are we
> > doing that?
> 
> Removing classes is as binary incompatible as you can possibly make it.
> 
They are not removed, they are deprecated.

`Allan




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