KDE_IS_VERSION and downwards compatibility (Re: [Kopete-devel] Miscellaneous warnings and errors during CVS compile)

[Harri Porten]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Martijn Klingens wrote:

> But that looks like a horrible hack :(

I haven't followed the previous discussion but won't this be a non-issue
in the future ?

> Why not follow the scheme the Trolls use, i.e. use binary coded decimals?
> 
> #if KDE_VERSION < 0x030190
> 
> is completely downwards-compatible and saves us from the KDE_IS_VERSION 
> kludge.

If time had permitted Qt had such a macro, too :) And it still might come.
Using the hex number was just a first step. It's still ugly to expose it.

Harri.