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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: IMPORTANT REMINDER: no more binary incompatible changes after
From:       Alexei Dets <dets () services ! ru>
Date:       2000-05-31 5:02:48
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Hi!
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?

At least KURL constructor & its decode + encode methods must be changed
to accept third optional parameter - encoding (charset) of URL. But I don't know
what type must be used for this parameter better - const char*, const
QString&, QTextCodec& or something else? What is the preffered KDE way
to pass such things?

	WBW, Alexei

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