PATCH: kprotocolmanager [new function]

[David Faure]

On Sunday 11 December 2005 20:05, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Le Dimanche 11 Décembre 2005 19:45, Dawit Alemayehu a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Any objection with me committing this patch to the 3.5.x branch ? It is
> > needed to fix a bug in the proxy config dialog.
> 
> This break binary compatibility from 3.5.1 to 3.5.0
No, it doesn't break backwards compatibility (i.e. upgrading kdelibs from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1 will work).

It breaks forward compatibility (using 3.5.0 where 3.5.1 is required), but that's OK.

> I remember a change like that was done in KNotifyClient in KDE 3.1.1
> In Kopete, we got some bug report because some binary package of kopete for 
> KDE 3.1 was compiled against 3.1.1 , and was crashing on KDE 3.1.0  (Kopete 
> was not in kdenetwork at that time)
Right; packagers should use the oldest allowed kdelibs version, not the newest one.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).