From kde-core-devel  Thu Sep 18 19:11:03 2008
From: Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:11:03 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: External SVN item in
Message-Id: <20080918191103.GA28509 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org>
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On 18.09.08 16:54:35, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:12:52 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Copy the file and fork the class.
> >
> > Not going to happen, its supposed to be the same in the plugin in
> > kdevelop and kate's code-completion widget.
> >  
> >
> > > If it's not ready to be exposed, it'll probably change heavily. That
> > > means it could break the other application at any moment. The developers
> > > of said class do not necessarily know who is using them.
> >
> > In theory thats correct, but reality looks quite a bit different. In
> > fact there's mostly only 1 person working on the class and thats the
> > person also maintaining the kdevelop plugin.
> 
> So why is copying not acceptable then?
> 
> Only one person is touching it.

Because then that person has to remember adjusting both copies.

Andreas
 
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