Adding experimental parts to a KF5 library

[Ivan Čukić]

> The C++ committee uses (for example)
> std::experimental::something

I was thinking about something along these lines as well.

> say it's a "technology preview"

Both would be ok I guess, the only problem I see with TP is that is
one does not read the README, it might be missed.

I'd propose to go for:
- experimental namespace to force the user to see that something is not stable
- 0 soversion to show that the library has no stable ABI.

Cheerio,
Ivan

On 10 January 2015 at 10:23, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The C++ committee uses (for example)
>> std::experimental::something
>
> I was thinking about something along these lines as well.
>
>> say it's a "technology preview"
>
> Both would be ok I guess, the only problem I see with TP is that is
> one does not read the README, it might be missed.
>
> I'd propose to go for:
> - experimental namespace to force the user to see that something is not stable
> - 0 soversion to show that the library has no stable ABI.
>
> Cheerio,
> Ivan
>
>
>
>
> On 9 January 2015 at 20:54, Mark Gaiser <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at kde.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Because of the short release cycle for the frameworks, it is hard to
>>> have bigger new features included into one of them. Slowly evolving
>>> APIs while developing stuff leaves a lot of crud and deprecated
>>> methods later.
>>>
>>> What is our policy about having experimental (unstable API/ABI) parts
>>> in a framework (obviously, in a separate binary, so that the main
>>> library remains BC)?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheerio,
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>
>> The C++ committee uses (for example) std::experimental::something. Why don't
>> we adapt the same in frameworks.
>> There it would probably be: <framework>::experimental::something.
>>
>> Or Qt as another example, they simply say it's a "technology preview" :)
>> I don't think they put it under a special namespace.
>
>
>
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