From kde-core-devel  Sat Feb 19 22:32:04 2005
From: Stefan Teleman <steleman () nyc ! rr ! com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:32:04 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Future of KDE Development
Message-Id: <200502191732.04514.steleman () nyc ! rr ! com>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110885236101628

On Friday 18 February 2005 09:14, Hans Meine wrote:
> Quoting stuff I saw so far:
>
> arts/flow/gsl/gslglib.h/cpp:
>   internal GSL stuff replaced with #include <glib.h> - unnecessary
> arts/mcop/trader_impl.cc:
>   "using namespace std" replaced with std:: prefixes - unnecessary
> arts/soundserver/artsd.cc:
>   this is interesting signal/syslimits stuff, should obviously be
> integrated with #ifdef's
> arts/soundserver/samplestorage_impl.cc:
>   even better - this could be compatible changes (c vs. c++
> headers, direntry handling), I am not sure
> arts/soundserver/soundserver_impl.cc.diff:
>   "No differences encountered" ;-)
> arts/soundserver/soundserverv2_impl.cc:
>   similar to samplestorage_impl.cc, plus some strange patch
> replacing a simple trader call by lots of code hardcoding different
> mimetypes. wow - wondering who hacked this together and why??

These patches are for Forte builds:

1. Why duplicate glib header and implementation files within arts ? 
This doesn't really remove the dependency on glib, and it causes 
conflicts.

2. The trader does not find any mimetypes. Therefore you cannot play 
any sounds. The problem with the trader not returning any matches 
from the trader cache can be easily reproduced with the trader test 
program.

3. The direntry handling changes are for the memory corruption caused 
by the original implementation.

The consequences of 2 and 3 are that you cannot play any sounds, and 
Noatun (or any other of the players in kdemultimedia) will crash on 
startup with the famous "Cannot instantiate aRts object". These 
patches fix these problems.

There is no problem with AC_SYS_LARGEFILE or truncate64 when building 
with the Sun compilers.

--Stefan

-- 
Stefan Teleman          'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'
steleman@nyc.rr.com                          -Monty Python