Re: Qt 5 private headers

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11.06.2015, 10:01, "Rex Dieter" <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Ruslan Nigmatullin wrote:
>
>>  I've just noticed that there are not separate packages for private headers
>>  of Qt 5 in Fedora but there is one for Qt 4.
>
> The Qt4 one was just a hack (for qt-creator).

The issue is that right now private headers are installed as part of qt5-qtbase-devel package, and I doubt that Qt4's libqt4-devel-private is a bug after that :)

>>  Also I've checked specs of
>>  some packages like qt5-qtdeclarative which uses private headers during the
>>  compilation and their rpms depends on qt5-qtbase >= ${qt5_version} instead
>>  of qt5-qtbase == ${qt5_version} which may be source of various errors
>>  (because Qt doesn't guarantee API/ABI compatibility for private headers).
>>
>>  Is it made on purpose and how does Fedora guarantee that nothing breaks in
>>  case of Qt's minor/patch updates?
>
> There is no guarantee (for private header usage), no one has done the work
> yet to implement that in the packaging yet.
>
> Are you willing to help work on it? :)

Sure, I may have a look. How can I start? Is there any way to test if I've broken anything in any way except trying to rebuild all Fedora's packages (Qt5 and all dependencies like KDE) at my laptop?

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