[Kde-bindings] Adding an mf_attribute flag to MethodFlags in smoke.h

[Arno Rehn]

On Wednesday 21 October 2009 02:59:07 Arno Rehn wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 13:55:51 Arno Rehn wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:38:33 Richard Dale wrote:
> > > Ah, after I posted the mail I realized the flags are in an unsigned
> > > char, and we've run out of space. So it would need to be changed to an
> > > unsigned short instead. Maybe wait until we have several BIC changes to
> > > smoke.h and do them all at once? Now we have several projects using the
> > > Smoke libs we have to be careful to all keep using the same versions.
> >
> > If we're at it we could also add sizeof() information for classes (for
> >  dynamic list marshallers) and make init_foo_Smoke() and foo_Smoke extern
> >  "C" (as suggested by the lisp bindings developer).
> >
> > > Also I think a 'mf_overloaded' flag would be useful as if a method
> > > isn't overloaded, there is no need to keep looking it up, and the
> > > result of the first lookup can be cached.
> >
> > Yes, that sounds good.
> 
> As the soft feature freeze is getting closer (only 2 weeks left), I'd like
>  to break BC before that or not until trunk is open for KDE 4.5, so people
>  developing with Smoke (and that number seems to be steadily increasing :))
>  and packagers have time to adjust to the new version. Personally I'd opt
>  for breaking it now, so to not hinder development of new stuff. If
>  everyone is fine with that, we could collect a list of things that should
>  go in. Until now I see the following:
> 
> * The above discussed extension to method flags.
> * Mark init_foo_Smoke and foo_Smoke extern "C".
> * Add sizeof() information to the classes table.
> 
> Would this be ok? Is there anything you would add? Or not include?
I'd also add a delete_foo_Smoke with an extern "C" binding, so we can easily 
delete the smoke lib again (for languages that don't support this natively, 
like C#).

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Arno Rehn
arno at arnorehn.de