On 21 May 2026, at 13:47, drwho <[email protected]> wrote:
how about sapi? When I see spi I think of the 4-wire Serial Peripheral Interface. SPI is a well established companion to API, so I don’t think we benefit from using a mix of the two. Nor are these interfaces limited to Application use. Tor Arne On 2026-05-21 07:45, Artem Dyomin via Development wrote: * c++ keywords (volatile, mutable), they might suggest that the folder has something to do with c++ mutables, volatiles, etc. * include <QtGui/6.12/qrhi.h> requires updates all usages in Qt code before each release, not sure that we want to handle this dogfood. * spi makes sense for me. Confidential ________________________________ From: Tor Arne Vestbø <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2026 1:41 PM To: Volker Hilsheimer <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Edward Welbourne <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>; Artem Dyomin <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Development] Semi-private headers in Qt On 21 May 2026, at 13:30, Volker Hilsheimer via Development <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: One idea I just had was to use the major.minor version number of Qt. #include <QtGui/6.12/qrhi.h> The advantage is that you are clearly seeing that you are using an API that is specific to that Qt version. The disadvantage is that you have to change the include statement when upgrading Qt version, but that might as much be an advantage because it creates awareness - just because things still compile doesn't necessary mean that they also still work the same way. And it can be made very simple by having a single wrapper-header for a project. Failing that my preference would be either unstable, unsupported, or semiprivate I suggest we squash all these uses-cases into an opaque `spi` suffix, which can covers both semi-private (experimental), and service-provider (system integration) interfaces. It’s also short to write :) #include <QtGui/spi/qplatformwindow.h> // Technically both semi-private and service-provider interface #include <QtMultimedia/spi/qgstreamvervideosource.h> // Semi private API Tor Arne -- Development mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
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