Binary incompat Fridays?

Charles Samuels charles at kde.org
Thu Feb 6 07:35:42 GMT 2003


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On Wednesday 05 February 2003 9:40, Clarence Dang wrote:
> Could you or someone else please be kind enough to commit the attached
> patch for me at the same time (I'm on unreliable dialup and in a totally
> different timezone to most other developers...)?  It changes
> KFileDialog::updateLocationWhatsThis() from protected to private since
> there is no good reason why a derived class should be able to call it. 
> Yes, this method was introduced after 3.1 and I was the idiot who gave it
> the wrong permission thing.

There are compilers that stupidly mangle the protection in the methods.  Gcc 
is not one of them (?).  What can our policy be that, seeing as how almost 
none of us [developers] use gcc -- does this count as a BC issue (and would 
be therefor committed only on a Friday), or could it be committed whenever?

- -Charles

- -- 
Charles Samuels <charles at kde.org>
"Pacifism implies quite a bit of wisdom" -- Maksim Orlovich
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