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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: libkdesu binary incompatibility
From:       Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen () stud ! tue ! nl>
Date:       2000-05-20 18:05:30
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Kurt Granroth wrote:

> Geert Jansen wrote:
> > I'd like to get rid of some 5 functions in libkdesu, in KDEsuClient.
> > These functions got additinal parameters but binary compatibility
> > requires to keep the old prototypes too. When is there another
> > binary incompatibility round?
>  
> If you don't get rid of the old methods, then the change is not binary
> incompatible.  A binary incompatible change would be to just change
> the parameters of a function without keeping a prototype around with
> the old parameters.

I know. I asked because keeping all these old methods gives such a mess and
I want to get rid of them.

Greetings,
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    Geert Jansen                       email: <g.t.jansen at stud.tue.nl>
    Phylosopher, Physicist,                    email: <jansen at kde.org>           
    KDE enthusiast                                 PGP key ID: 0xD2B5E7CE            

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