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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 2.2beta1 delayed with one week.
From:       Richard Dale <Richard_Dale () tipitina ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-05-14 19:07:48
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 14 May 2001 17:58, Richard Dale wrote:
> > Is the beta tagging still going ahead today? I'm trying to get the java
> > language bindings in step with kdelibs for the beta, but they seem to keep
> > changing, and breaking my build. For instance, two methods have been removed
> > from kimagefilepreview.h since yesterday (Sunday afternoon). Adding methods is
> > fine, but removing methods, right before a baseline is inconvenient for me -
> > perhaps this sort of thing doesn't affect anyone else much though. 
> 
> It's still very bad practice to remove public or protected methods, quite 
> dangerous since any app could be using them.
> 
> Can you point out the removed methods when you see them, so that whoever
> removed it (or someone else) can readd them (as they were, or as stubs, or porting to
> the new design...) ?
They had never been released, so I think I agree with Carsten (below) that it
was a better idea to get rid of them now, rather than later. 

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> sorry for breaking that, but this class has been revamped to make use of the
> new preview architecture, which wasn't really available until yesterday.
> As the "old" class hasn't been released (not counting KDE 2.2alpha), I wanted
> to remove it rather now than later and definitely before 2.2.

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Richard Dale wrote:
> No problem (I sound a bit more stroppy than I actually am above :-) ). Your
> right that it's better to get something like that correct an early stage. This
> is the first time I've tried to do this. I think the best solution might be to
> tag the kdebindings module a day or two after the others, then there is time to
> sort out any problems like this. The kdebindings depend on everything else, but
> nothing depends on the kdebindings (currently anyway).

-- Richard
 
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