From kde-devel  Tue Jan 11 23:11:48 2000
From: Ian Zepp <icszepp () islc ! net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:11:48 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Writing from 2.0 -> 1.1.2
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Hi.

I have been working at porting a few of my apps to the kde 2.0 libs in the
last week or so, and an issue came up that I didn't know how to handle.

I've read through most of the headers for kde 2 and it seems to me that
the API is a lot cleaner and consistant than it was for 1.1.x, so it
naturally follows that I would rather write for kde 2. I'm aware that
there is a KDE2PORTING document, but is there some sort of guidance for
writing an app to use both kde 1 and 2? 

I guess my question is: for new applications, should I use the kde 1 libs
as a base and port forwards, or should I start with kde 2 libs and try to
work backwards? It is only reasonable to expect most people NOT to upgrade
KDE soon after 2 comes out, so we (as a devel community) will have to
support both kde 1 and 2. Which way should I (we) work? 

From kde 1, porting to 2?
Or from 2, backporting what's needed?

On a related note, are their any guidelines for this, or should we just be
dyslexic and read KDE2PORTING backwards? 

Regards

Ian

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