From kde-core-devel  Mon Apr 28 22:05:00 2003
From: Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 22:05:00 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Reason for -no-stl in qt-copy configure recommendation?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=105156759823243

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On Monday April 28, 2003 11:48, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> On Monday 28 April 2003 20:31, George Staikos wrote:
> > On Monday 28 April 2003 14:07, Ravikiran Rajagopal wrote:
> > > Plus, I don't see why preventing interoperability between QTL & STL
> > > is beneficial when measured against the cost of using
> > > well-understood constantly evolving algorithms that are widely
> > > deployed.
> >
> >    We are not preventing interoperability.  it is a question of
> > whether KDE CVS, "KDE as a project", should be writing STL code in
> > KDE CVS.  We have standardized on Qt, not glib, not STL.
>
> and on C++ and STL is part of C++ for many years.

That's a decision ANSI and/or ISO made about C++.  KDE can make its own 
decision independently.  Such decisions have been made in the past.  
Exceptions were once avoided, sprintf is avoided.  Minimizing use of the 
standard library would not be a new thing for KDE at all.

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