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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Another binary compatibility question
From:       Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-07 18:22:48
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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:14:03PM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
> > 
> > On Monday 07 May 2001 19:45, mosfet wrote:
> > > We haven't had one of these questions for awhile, so I figure I'll ask
> > > one ;-)
> > >
> > > I know you can't add new virtual methods. Can you add a new
> > > reimplementation of a virtual method in a base class you haven't
> > > implemented before?
> > 
> > Yes, but you can't rely that it will be called.
> > 
> > --
> > Reggie (reggie@trolltech.com)
> 
> Can someone with extreme knowledge about binary compatibility can set up
> a page on developer.kde.org about that ? this will be of importance to
> application developers as well and become more important with KDE 3
> because by then we should have our API so consistent that it doesn't
> need major changes and the 3.0 API can be used always by software
> vendors even with new KDE 3.x versions.
 
http://developer.kde.org/kde2arch/devel-binarycompatibility.html

Bye,
 Simon

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