Use of Boost library classes in kdecore?

[Thiago Macieira]

David Jarvie wrote:
>Having looked at implementing this, I realise that it won't work. The
>KTimeZone base class objects provided by the API must be polymorphic,
> i.e. a KTimeZone object/pointer must act like a pointer to that it can
> represent any derived class object as well, and call the appropriate
> virtual functions. Giving KTimeZone a QExplicitlySharedDataPointer
> d-pointer doesn't provide this, and would still be necessary to use
> pointers to KTimeZone to achieve polymorphism, which bypasses the
> ref-counting and is no better than the current implementation.

The alternative is to flatten the hierarchy and remove the need for 
derived classes in application code.

What descendants of KTimeZone exist and why must they be used? Is the 
application author supposed to derive from KTimeZone?

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