From kde-edu-devel  Thu May 30 18:14:51 2002
From: Klas Kalass <klas.kalass () gmx ! de>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:14:51 +0000
To: kde-edu-devel
Subject: Re: [kde-edu-devel] And so it begins (libkdeedu)
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Am Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2002 15:15 schrieb Scott Wheeler:
[...]
>
> Ok now, thinking about it, I think the way to go would be to define a set
> of classes that work with kvtml that are specific to vocabulary.  If at
> some point we decide that a more generalized approach would be useful, we
> could port those classes to the generalized solution and use the
> "vocabulary" classes as a wrapper to the more general classes.  How does
> that sound?
I think this sounds good.

>
> > Also it might be interesting to have a seperate lib for voc apps, so I'd
> > call
> > it "libkeduvoc". Math apps might also want to have a lib and would be
> > quite bad to link all the voc stuff into a math app.
> > A lib "libkedu" should only contain things, that _all_ edu apps can use,
> > such
> > as a score system, etc.
>
> Hmm.  I disagree here.  I see why it would be useful to have separate sets
> of classes, but I don't see why they should be in separate libs.  For
> example Qt is one library, kdeui is just one library, etc.  Again, this is
> open for debate but I don't see a reason to build several libraries except
> where there are linking issues (for instance there are potential advantag=
es
> to not having to link to classes that contain GUI items).  What do you see
> as the benefit of these not being in the same library?
I do not know much about library loading, but I think that everything will =
be=20
loaded into memory when the app is started, including the depending=20
libraries. This might mean a huge overhead if one just needs some scoring.

>
> At any rate this should give us some good things to talk about at LinuxTa=
g!
Yep, looking forward to some heated discussions :-)


Greetings,
Klas

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