[Qgis-developer] protected members to be considered API ?

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 04:51:07PM +0100, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/27/2016 04:34 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:04:20AM +0100, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 09:49:48AM +0100, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> >>> Anything not LIB_EXPORTed (or private) should be considered an
> >>> implementation detail,
> >> What about protected members ?
> > For example:
> >
> > class CORE_EXPORT QgsFeatureRendererV2
> >
> >     protected static const unsigned char* _getPoint(
> >       QPointF& pt, QgsRenderContext& context,
> >       const unsigned char* wkb // <-- no boundary info !
> >     );

> I'd not treat protected different from public, both are accessible for
> external code.

Ok.

> If it's possible to keep the old API in place and have it deprecated, it
> is preferable.

I'm taking this path.

--strk;