Proposal for KDE 4.0

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Mittwoch 18 August 2004 07:34 schrieb David Johnson:
> On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:18 pm, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 20:54, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > I'd prefer nowhere. Imagine the command-lines with
> > > -I$KDEDIR/include/core/4.0/ -I$KDEDIR/include/kio/4.0/
> > > -I$KDEDIR/include/ui/4.0/ .....
> >
> > This is what pkg-config provides, of course.
>
> Except that it doesn't necessarily do away with the very awkward command
> line. Granted, the user isn't likely to be typing this in by hand, but
> it still makes an examination of a build log that much more painful on
> the eyes.
>
> While the orginal proposal mentioned versioning in the filesystem
> namespace, it seems to me that the core problem it was addressing was
> related to module names rather than versions.
If you really want to split core and ui in different location, you would still 
end up with -I$KDEDIR/include/kde-4 only - and the app would use 
<ui/kmenubar.h>

Greetings, Stephan