dcopserver and KDE4

[Thomas Braxton]

On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:23 am, George Staikos wrote:
> On Thursday 10 November 2005 08:02, Thomas Braxton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 03:16 pm, George Staikos wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 09 November 2005 16:02, Thomas Braxton wrote:
> > > > This patch removes compatibility with KDE2. Ok to commit?
> > >
> > >   Why?
> >
> > dcopServerFileOld() is deprecated to be removed for KDE4. It's only there
> > for compatibility with KDE2. Will a program compiled for KDE2 even work
> > with KDE4 without being ported? We can't remove dcopServerFileOld() until
> > the last few uses of it are removed.
>
>   I would prefer to see evidence why KDE2 apps will no longer work under
> KDE4 and why we can't fix that.  Then sure.
I don't know what has changed in the various versions of QDataStream, but the 
last version of KDE2 was against Qt 2.3.1, so DCOP used QDataStream(version 
2.1). Since KDE 3.1 we've  been using QDataStream(version 3.1+), so a KDE2 
binary probably wouldn't even be able to read the data streamed to it from 
KDE4 DCOP.