[Development] From whence cometh Q_NAMESPACE?

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 11/06/2019 19:24, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> So, my questions are:
> 
> 1. Is it really Qt's intent that using Q_NAMESPACE, etc. requires
> including <QObject>?
> 
> 2. If not, is it worth tweaking the documentation to make it clearer
> that <QMetaObject> is sufficient?
> 
> (I don't see why we would need to "specify that macro for multiple
> targets"... just "move" it to QMetaObject. It should be clear that
> <QObject> includes <QMetaObject>.)

I wouldn't rely on that transitive inclusion. Anyhow, we have two 
problems at hand:

* one is a documentation one: how do we make these macros discoverable 
without spreading in N documentation pages? How do we specify what's the 
right include to get a macro (when it's a transitive include like this one)?

* another one is which one is the "right" include for pulling in the 
meta object macros. It could even be an include different from QObject 
and QMetaObject...

Cheers,

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