API problems (Was: future versions)

[Marc Mutz]

On Sunday 08 February 2004 11:35, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Saturday 07 February 2004 02:54, Marc Mutz wrote:
> > The accumulated mess in kdelibs/interfaces. Yes, I'm all for
> > interfaces but requiring a text editor to implement - say - a dozen
> > "interfaces" is quite heavy, esp. since they each require virtual
> > inheritance, which is surprisingly memory intensive.
>
> Out of curiousity, why do they require virtual inheritance? Kate for
> once manages to implement them without.
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The virtual inheritance needs to be on the level of the interface class, 
of course. E.g.:

kdelibs/interfaces/ktexteditor/*dcopinterface.h

FooDCOPInterface : virtual public DCOPObject { ... }

Marc

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