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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: IMPORTANT REMINDER: no more binary incompatible changes after
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-31 12:18:38
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
I have no problem with changing the IO-slave interface if it's put big
into
documentation that you should not check for any sanity of the URL and
just
think of the passed URL as container. 

Greetings, Stephan

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