QML-using app developers: use private.* imports

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Wed Sep 25 21:21:11 UTC 2013


On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 17:51:41 Mark wrote:
> Doesn't your naming proposal completely ruin the org.kde.* stuff? Up until
> now i could fairly safely assume that all QML KDE imports where hidden
> under org.kde.* but that isn't the case anymore if you introduce
> private.org.kde.*

That's exactly the point: we don't want you to find it, much less to rely on 
it. It's basically application internal "stuff" you have no business with.

> It looks like you miss a part in the url.. I would say something like this:
> org.kde.public.* = public imports
> org.kde.private.* = private imports
> 
> But that would require changing all existing components to reflect this
> idea..

That, and it would encourage to maybe use it as second class API, and still 
cause us the same problems.

Cheers,
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