DCOP interface in kicker broke compatibility?

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Wed Feb 2 18:34:10 GMT 2005


On Wednesday 02 February 2005 13:15, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 10:46, George Staikos wrote:
> >    I think the backwards compatibility of DCOP interfaces is more
> > important than even binary compatibility of our libraries.  It's not like
> > there are many real commercial, binary-only applications out there using
> > kdelibs.
>
> commercial apps are not the only reason for maintaining library API
> compatibility. every third party application developed relies on a stable
> API in our libraries, open or closed. the open source apps can be adapted
> to change more easily, but chasing APIs isn't desirable. so, no, i don't
> think that DCOP interfaces are more important than our library compat
> efforts.

  I said "binary compatibility of our libraries".

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