From kde-core-devel Mon Mar 14 23:16:26 2005 From: Richard Moore Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:16:26 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KDE3.4RC1: Incompatibility Message-Id: <5491a515050314151680e3cd9 () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=111084222204834 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:52:21 +0100, Scott Wheeler wrote: > Great. I'll go get a martini while you and Bero start ripping out all of our > libc dependencies. ;-) We don't use it directly in that many places at the moment. > > And if we're really being honest, that's a great reason for not using C++ too, > but instead using a language that doesn't allow unchecked access, but we > haven't started rewriting KDE in one of those languages for pragmatic > reasons. Sure, but there's a balance to be had. If you centrally wrap dangerous parts of the system APIs in code that is safer, you only have to fix the problems in one place. That said, let's just memcpy and mmap the screen - that way our GUI will really fast... ;-) Cheers Rich.