KSharedPtr breakage

[David Faure]

On Sunday 23 October 2005 20:28, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> How about making KSycocaEntry (and all the stuff that inherits it - 
> KServiceType, KProtocolInfo et cetera) classes with value semantics, making 
> it do all the reference counting internally. So you'd have a 'KServiceType 
> KSycocaFactory::findServiceByName( const QString & )' function and so on.
> 
> Besides the nice side-effect that value semantics don't even trigger the whole 
> 'Who owns this thing?' thing, it would solve the problem with covariant 
> return types which you get when returning a SharedPtr<Foo> instead of a Foo*. 

Sounds very good to me.
I can give a hand for the implementation tomorrow if you want.

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