state of kdefx (again), BC exemption request

Andreas Hartmetz ahartmetz at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 02:41:56 BST 2007


On Friday 20 July 2007 02:55:51 Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> I'd like to make a request to exempt this library from requirement to
> maintain BC in KDE 4.0 so that we have much more time to address the API
> and hopefully ultimately remove the library entirely (merging
> functionality we want to keep into kdeui or elsewhere, or possibly
> giving it new life as a more "traditional" KDE library perhaps in a
> different module). The "nice" way to do this is to make the library
> static so that it can still be used but without BC issues.
>
How large would be the per-application memory overhead of duplicated code?
This number should have at least some influence on the decision.

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