From kde-devel Sat Jun 05 13:00:02 1999 From: David Faure Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 13:00:02 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: qproperty - bug - problem X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92858680113840 On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 01:05:11PM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem and I need some advice/help :) > > I found two bugs in QProperty, and I reported them twice (once on > snapshot-users and once to the original Author) , without any reaction or > fix (although I provided a patch) . > Well, it doesn't matter why this hasn't been fixed in Qt's CVS by some of > the Trolls, they will probably have their reasons (perhaps being busy with > the beta release; qproperty is not part of the release) , I don't care. > > BUT: I have a bunch of code sitting on my hdd (including patches for > KOffice to make filters, tools and plugins working again!) , but I can't > commit this code, because it depends on a working QProperty. If I would > just commit the code then it would break kservicetype and kded would then > crash on startup. A non-working kded prevents KOffice apps from > working, so Reggie for example couldn't continue hacking KWord/KPresenter > if he'd cvs update (just as example) . > > My question is simple: > What can be done, so I can commit? > > Should I post a patch (conforming to the QPL this way) to > kde-devel@/koffice@ and make everyone require to apply it? > > Should I try to work around the bug? (although it would be a very ugly > workaround IMHO) > > Or could I even commit the QProperty patch into CVS (now that QProp is > temporarily in kdelibs) ? I did some fixes in KSharedPtr (will be QSharedPtr one day) so I think you can fix QProperty - but the problem is a bit different since QSharedPtr is _not_ in Qt CVS at all. With QProperty we would have a versioning problem. Since you have a lot of things to commit I would say commit them all including the QProperty fix - but keep asking TT to include the fix as well. About this QPL copyright problem : all those TT classes are in fact written by Torben. I think he could easily ask to change the copyright temporary to GPL and back to QPL when TT wants the classes. -- David FAURE david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today