Namespaces in libkdecore

Simon Hausmann hausmann at kde.org
Sat May 1 19:54:56 BST 2004


On Saturday 01 May 2004 20:29, Holger Freyther wrote:
> On Saturday 01 May 2004 20:08, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> >Now that the K prefix
> > is reserved for KDE and new versions of the libraries are released
> > together, where is the benefit?
>
> clean namespaces, clean versioning...

How do you want to make use of a KDE namespace versioning?

You can't really mix classes in a KDE3 namespace with classes in a KDE4 
namespace in the same application, because it would mean you have to pull in 
libkdecore.so.4 and libkdecore.so.5 for example. That's unrealistic.

Simon




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