libqt-addon in kdelibs [branch merged]

[Dirk Mueller]

On Tuesday 10 February 2004 19:40, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> By the way, every application doing name-lookup (including Unix sockets)
> or using KURL needs IDN in the current framework. libidn is also used
> to verify compliance of a hostname to STD 3 rules.

we use libidn when we don't do DNS lookups ? Huh? 

> If you find that unacceptable, don't install libidn-devel in your system
> when compiling. Otherwise, the penalty we used to have in mid-runtime
> is now at startup time.

It is also a runtime performance overhead, since symbol resolution on ELF 
platforms is O(k*n), where k = number of dependend shared libraries and n == 
number of symbols which have to be resolved.


Dirk