On Thursday 19 July 2012 14:19:36 Marc Mutz wrote: > On Wednesday July 18 2012, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > We discussed namespaces long time ago already, and decided not to put Qt > > in > > a namespace. > > The reason is that it breaks source compatibility by breaking all the > > forward declarations. > > Even with inline namespaces? Then they would have failed to achieve their > goal to hide the fact that the type is in an inline namespace. Yes, inline namespace won't help. If you do: class QString; int foo(const QString &); It creates the symbol _Z3fooRK7QString, which is different from _Z3fooRKN3v507QStringE. The suggested solution is, during Qt5 lifetime, introduce forward-declaration headers that declares all the Qt types, and deprecate the use of forward declarations. Then in Qt6 we can finally move in a namespace. -- Olivier Woboq - Qt services and support - http://woboq.com _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
