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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Proposed incompatible change: IO-slaves
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-29 19:28:12
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On Mon, 29 May 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I would like to change the io-slave interface to use KURL instead of path & 
> query pairs. This change allows us to solve problems with non-ascii paths 
> with unknown encodings. Since we don't know the encoding of these paths it is 
> impossible to convert them to unicode reliable, so we can't pass them in a 
> QString. This problem is solvable within the KURL class, but for that we must 
> make sure to pass the URL around.
> 
> This change involves changing _ALL_ io-slaves so I hope that no one is 
> currently working on big changes in his/her io-slave. If you do, please let 
> me know ASAP.
> 
> Make sure to yell if you have objections to this change. Otherwise I will 
> commit my changes wednesday.

Hmmm... I thought the use of KURL in the io-slaves was avoided because it
slowed them down considerably ?


Regards,
Dawit A.

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