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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE4 printing: results of IRC meeting
From:       Bart Coppens <kde () bartcoppens ! be>
Date:       2007-09-14 21:57:41
Message-ID: 200709142357.41746.kde () bartcoppens ! be
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On Friday 14 September 2007 23:51, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> KDE Libs 4.0's printing will work only on Qt 4.3.2 because it will do a
> very ugly hack of modifying QPrintDialog. If you upgrade Qt without
> upgrading KDE, you will very likely lose those extra configuration pages.
> (Which Windows and Mac users won't be seeing anyways)
Wow. This completely defeats the idea of backwards-compatibility.  Purposely 
depending on code of which you know it will be ABI/API-incompatible in the 
next release sounds like a *very* bad idea to me.

Bart
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