KFilterDev weirdness : docs and code not the same

[Luís Pedro Coelho]

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Thanks David for the corrections.

Le Monday 27 October 2003 11:06, David Faure a écrit :
> On Monday 27 October 2003 11:36, Brad Hards wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:22 pm, David Faure wrote:
> > On documentation, there is a comment in KFilterBase that it is "pretty
> > much internal".
>
> Yes, since the API is so close to the way gzip and bzip2 work, and it
> shouldn't be used from apps.
>
> > Is it OK to use it for decompressing filters outside of kdelibs?
>
> Yes, it's ok to use it to create a new filter from it.
>
> > I'm looking at trying to provide native support for Andrew Tridgell's
> > rzip compression algorithm
>
> OK. I hope the API fits :}

This API should probably be revised for KDE 4.
It should be split into an abstract base and a zlib based implementation. It 
is almost impossible to provide a new filter, even though the filters 
themselves have a very generic interface (read/write, mostly).

regards,
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