[Development] Using private API for qt-based library

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

> On terça-feira, 26 de setembro de 2017 09:28:25 PDT Fabrice Salvaire wrote:
> > Le 25/09/2017 à 10:56, Viktor Engelmann a écrit :
> > > On 25.09.2017 10:29, iman ahmadvand wrote:
> > >> Hi every one.
> > >> I'm developing a set of specialized opensource widgets in c++ (called
> > >> MaterialWidgets which is google material design implementation)
> > >> Now i want to use private API for this library to prevent re
> > >> implementing a bunch of logics behind those widgets.
> > >>
> > >> What is your suggestion ?
> > >
> > > don't
> >
> > Sure, but in some particular cases, we have no choice when Qt don't
> > expose the API
>
> You do have a choice. Multiple, even. The first and simplest: don't do what
> you're trying to do.
>
> Second, you can also add public API to allow what you're asking. See my
> other
> email sent to the interest mailing list.
>
> The third option is to import the code you're developing into Qt. Then you
> are
> allowed to use the private API.
>

And this should be a theme, not a new widget set.


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