kdeextragear-1/k3b/src

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 23 of June 2003 16:37, Sebastian Trueg wrote:
> > [Moved to kde-core-devel]
> >
> > On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:48, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:27, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 22 June 2003 11:00, Sebastian Trueg wrote:
> > > > >removed the "roaming user fix" from deller to get KDE 3.1 comp back.
> > > > >Please be aware that kdeextragear apps do not get released with the
>
> rest
>
> > > > > of the Kde packages and mostly should compile with the current KDE
> > > > > release (in this case: KDE 3.1)
> > >
> > > Huh? KDE-3.1 has readPathEntry/writePathEntry !!!
> >
> > Hi Sebastian,
> >
> > reverting is maybe the badest idea to solve a problem, since this also
> > means, that you loose the roaming support in KDE 3.2..
> >
> > b) writePathEntry() in 3.1 (not in 3.1 BRANCH!) was broken and wrote
>
> always
>
> >     $HOME at the beginning of strings. This should be solvable with an
>
> #ifdef KDE_IS_VERSION(3,1,2)
>
> Are you sure this is a good solution? As far as I know KDE 3.1.x should be
> BC. So it's no problem to compile with KDE 3.1.2 and run with, say  KDE
> 3.1.1. 

 That's how TrollTech does it with Qt (and it's really annoying to wait so 
longer for even the simplest new API call added, isn't it?). I was under the 
impression that we didn't have any kind of this forward compatability. At 
least I myself backported some new API calls in kdelibs that were needed for 
backporting kdebase fixes.

> This way the bug will show. Am I right? Since a lot of users are
> installing rpm packages created by other users this may occur more than
> once. I never liked #ifdefs anyway. ;)
> So what can I do instead? I could provide my own implementation (some
> wrapper) for as long as K3b will be Kde 3.1 comp.. I think that would be
> the best solution.

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