RFC: adding a temporary, non-BC gauranteed, 'private' library .. where?

[Thiago Macieira]

Thiago Macieira wrote:
>2) don't ever remove it
>
>And in either case, you have to put the headers in the same place as
> kdeui (i.e., future compatibility) and you have to use a hidden
> namespace to avoid conflicting with the symbols when it does make its
> way to kdeui (à la Animations Solution).

Hmm... you can't move symbols from one library to another (see 
src/corelib/xml/qxmlstream.h for information in our attempt). If you 
change the symbol name, be it by changing the namespace or removing it, 
then the changes are source-compatible but not binary.

It only works as long as those classes are never used in ANY public API.

And like QXmlStreamXXXX classes today, you can't forward-declare them.
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