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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: libkio & libksycoca
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () gmx ! net>
Date:       2001-11-28 7:57:42
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On Wed 28 Nov 01 02:19, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:38 pm, aleXXX wrote:
> > On Wed 28 Nov 01 01:22, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > I would almost be inclined to say that we should move all of
> > > "kdecore/kdeui/kio/ksycoca/kfile/kparts" into a single libkde since
> > > this is all pretty much generic functionality. That way we could also
> > > use e.g. KMessageBox in kdecore for error-reporting (when kapp is
> > > available).
> >
> > ... linking time....
> > Removing -lkfile from konsole saved approx. 0.5 seconds here.
>
> That problem has been solved in the linker by now.

hmm, and now we can make it slower again ????

> > To me this sounds more like a design problem with the structure of the
> > libs.
>
> Yes. My proposal would solve that design problem.
>
> > Don't know if this is stupid, but wouldn't it be possible to have a
> > small lib which is dlopened() which provides the message boxes and
> > passowrd dialogs etc. ? And this one would be linked against kdeui, but
> > kdecore or kio which would dlopen it wouldn't have to be linked against
> > kdeui
>
> That sounds butt-ugly and hackish to me.

Well, ok, but IMHO not much more hackish and ugly than throwing everything in 
one huge lib 

Bye
Alex

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