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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Binary Compatibility Question (Was: Re: What happens after 2.1 ?)
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-02-25 14:25:58
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Ok, I've had a _long_ chat about this last night on #kde. It looks like it is 
technically possible indeed, but that it might not be worth the effort.

How valuable is binary compatibility for us during the transition from one 
major version to another? This compatibility layer will slow existing 
pre-compiled apps down, but will not (or at least is not supposed to) affect 
recompiled sources in any way.

Futhermore, to prevent being stuck with old API's till the end of days it 
should be used solely for maintaining BINARY compatibility and not SOURCE 
compatibility.

Thus, the question is simple: do we want bc if it is possible and has no 
impact on future source code, even if it slows down apps that use it and 
takes a serious amount of effort to develop initially (and also some effort 
to keep up-to-date, though that should be doable and not too hard) ?

Please let me know (off the list is fine).

TIA,

Martijn

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