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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: klibfactory cleanup
From:       Harri Porten <porten () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-09-24 13:42:37
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Simon Hausmann wrote:

> 
> The thing I don't like about encoding the component name into the entry point
> symbol is that (aside from any platform/linking issues) it looks like 
> redundant information to me. It means for the developer that he has to 
> specify that very name in three different variants: Once as libfooname.la 
> in the Makefile.am, once as libfooname in the .desktop file and once as 
> strange extern "C" init_libfooname() method. Not really easy to use, 
> compared to for example Qt's approach, where you specify the component 
> name only one very single time: In the .pro file. In your source you just 
> write Q_EXPORT_FOO( MyBlah ) and that's about it.
> 
> 
> Yes yes, call me a nitpicker about this tiny little detail in our API ;-)

How about

#define KDE_EXPORT_COMPONENT_FACTORY( factory ) \
   extern "C" void *kde_init#factory() { return new factory; }

?

Harri.

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