From kde-core-devel  Wed Jul 25 22:56:02 2001
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:56:02 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: The Road Ahead
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99610201521272

On Wednesday 25 July 2001 02:58 pm, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> What's about binary compatibilty? KDE 3.0 will break it, but after that
> the libs should again stay binary compatible for a long time, is this
> correct? Since major new features tend to break binary compatibility,
> shouldn't we aim for putting as much new features as possible into KDE
> 3.0?

A lot of features can be added in a BC way as well. I haven't seen many 
features the last few months that couldn't be added because of BC. There are 
two that I'm aware of, large file support and recordable KActions.

Cheers,
Waldo
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