[Development] QML and Qt Quick versioning of our modules

Kari Oikarinen kari.oikarinen at qt.io
Thu Dec 7 14:58:19 CET 2017


On 07.12.2017 15:53, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> 1) sync minor versions to Qt release version:
> For Qt 5.11, we would provide QtQuick.Controls 2.11
> This way, the challenge for the user is only to find out if it's version 1, 2
> or 5.
> 

This sounds troublesome if Qt 6.0 comes when Qt Quick Controls would 
still like to stay in the same major version. 2.0?

> 2) Make the minor version import optional and we pick the lastest. This should
> be optional to prevent the name clashes described above and shifts the risk to
> the user.
> In practice I'd expect this to be pretty safe.
> import QtQuick.Controls 2 would then give the latest version available.
> 
> 3) Make even the major version optional and we'd pick up the latest version.
> import QtQuick.Controls would give version 2.11 with Qt 5.11.

Optional versions in the import statement sound good to me.

-- 
Kari



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