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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: IMPORTANT REMINDER: no more binary incompatible changes after tomorrow
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-30 22:48:39
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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Alexei Dets wrote:
> > Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > > Tomorrow is the *LAST* time we will have to add binary incompatible
> > > changes to kdelibs.  This is because 1.91 (Kleopatra) will be coming
> > > out the following Wednesday.  And, from the release schedule:
> >
> > At least KURL needs to be fixed! And KProcess too. They don't work
> > correctly with non-ascii paths and arguments. In fact they don't
> > work at all in this case!!! I'm 99% sure that this will require
> > binary (and may be even source) incompatible changes. And such
> > important thing can't be done in one day :-(
>
> What binary incompatible API changes are necessary?

The IO-slave interface needs to be changed from qstrings to KURL. KURL also 
needs some fixes, I could use the d-pointer for that, but I rather not 
introduce an extra 'new' in all the constructors if that's isn't strictly 
necassery.

Cheers,
Waldo

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