On Friday 13 July 2001 16:25, Lars Knoll wrote:
> Binary compatibility would be broken by such a step anyway, and is actually
> rather unimportant. Source compatibility is what matters, and I'm pretty
> confident we can do such a move without breaking source compatibility in
> more than one or two places.

Would it be possible to provide a set of stub functions that emulate the 2.x 
API that are _not_ source compatible in a libkde2emu or so? That way no 
porting at all is probably necessary. Note: I don't have any serious 
knowledge on this subject, I really don't know against what obstacles one 
would run when trying this. Also, I don't know at what particular places 
source compat will be broken (except for the style engine, but that's not a 
really big problem - I'm looking forward to the new one anyway).

Could someone explain in short if such a lib is possible and if not 
(probably), why? Like many other people in the previous mails, I'm not 
that much concerned about BC, but all the more about source compat.

TIA,

Martijn