next snapshot (Re: kdesupport/qt-dbus)

[David Faure]

On Sunday 18 June 2006 16:37, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> SVN commit 552611 by thiago:
> 
> Introduce the new QtDBus type marshaller/demarshaller system, dubbed
> "Pattern Buffer". This change is binary-incompatible, but
> source-compatible. If you can't afford to rebuild everything, please
> wait until the next kdelibs snapshot (which should happen tomorrow).

OK. Actually I said last week "we should wait until all main modules are ported to dbus before making
more snapshot updates", but if there are changes that actually help with the porting, then
that's a reason to update the snapshot indeed. Well, technically those are changes in
qtdbus, not in kdelibs, but while we have to recompile kdelibs, we might as well update it
if it doesn't bring in more API changes to port to.

I had a look at what would change if updating kdelibs snapshot, and only this came up:
- many bugfixes (including knotify and kded working better, KPageWidget stuff, the kdatetime static-object crash fixed etc.)
- the removal of the name argument in the KDEDModule class
- the new KButtonGroup class
- ah and maybe the removal of q3 includes might mean some more q3 includes to add in modules.
No big change, so it shouldn't harm the current porting effort.

=> I suggest that we update the snapshot tomorrow indeed.
But after that I suggest that we stick to "we'll only update the snapshot when all main
modules have been ported to dbus", otherwise we'll never have compiling modules.

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