From kde-core-devel  Thu Nov 01 18:50:37 2001
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:50:37 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KConfig object-orientification
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=100464063718168

On Thursday 01 November 2001 10:33 am, Charles Samuels wrote:
> On Thursday 01 November 2001 11:22 am, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2001 11:45 pm, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > > This makes it compatible with old version, except for a few small
> > > things.
> >
> > It still rearranges the class structure which is unnecassery and
> > unacceptable IMO. You also have a complete duplication of the KConfigBase
> > API which really is unnecassery.
>
> Backwards compatibility wasn't my idea (I don't really favor it, for that
> matter).  

Then I don't think it has a place in KDE 3.

> And inheriting from KConfigBase is both messy, requires all those
> functions to be virtual (slowing it down), and requires more memory at run
> time (since the members of KConfigBase will be duplicated).

Bullshit, you only need to override the lookupData and putData methods and 
*surprise* those are virtual already.

Cheers,
Waldo