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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: MCOP interface versioning
From:       David "Hamish" Harvey <david.harvey () bristol ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2000-11-21 11:46:35
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On Sunday 19 November 2000 15:29, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> If we do a release, of course, this new interface will be frozen, too, and
> the next extensions will go into V3, V4, V5, ... until we can at last merge
> them all again, when we make a binary incompatible release (i.e. KDE3).

When the versions are merged, presumeably this would be a source incompatible 
change as well as binary incompatible. Otherwise they'd have to be merged 
under the name FooVn, where n is the latest version, and you'd need Foo, and 
FooVx classes where x=2..(n-1) as synonyms for FooVn?

Cheers,
Hamish

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