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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What to do after 2.2?
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-07-14 15:27:24
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On Friday 13 July 2001 16:25, Lars Knoll wrote:
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> 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.
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Actually, I think we should break SC at quite a few places:
(some things I remember in random order)

- - QRegExp3 is significantly different from QRegExp2 and in a way that 
is uncheckable by a compiler (regexp syntax). Also, QRegExp's are used 
in quite a few places implicitely. E.g. this small, innocoent-looking 
line will break:

QString str("Hello (World)!");
str.replace("(World)", "World");

because arg0 or QString::replace is actually a QRegExp....

- - KRegExp should be nuked in favour of QRegExp3.

- - KProcess should be nuked in favour of QProcess
(Qt multi-threading should also at least be be considered though I 
personally don't see a need for it)

- - I don't know much about this stuff, but it seems KDE uses a custom 
libloader where we should use Qt3's for KDE3 instead.

- - KDE's KPart's need to be ported to QLibrary, QPluginManager et al.

- - KDE's KConfig should be replaced by QSettings

- - ...

At least the KPart and KConfig changes should be pretty deep if we want 
to make use of the full Qt3 potential in that area. And they affect a 
very large part of the core source code base.

Marc

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