KIO::NetAccess static methods question

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 24.10.07 17:42:57, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Anyway, time will tell wether plasma will be the only kde4.0 library
> > > thats going to break BC for 4.1 or not and wether that will mean KDE
> > > 5.0 is released a year after 4.0 or not.
> >
> > just to make it very clear: libplasma is in kdebase/workspace (not
> > kdelibs; not even kdebase/runtime), is replacing a library that *never*
> > maintained BC (libkicker; heck, it didn't even install its headers so
> > people would just statically link it in to applets ... i'm not joking)
>
> Interesting I wasn't aware of that detail. So actually libplasma is already
> a large improvement over kicker wrt. developing applets.

yes, i think so. i can understand how might get a different feeling given the 
opinions being thrown about these days.

> > so don't make libplasma a part of this discussion =)
>
> Sorry, actually the reason was that until about 2 hours ago I thought
> libplasma was part of the KDE development platform. I just then realized
> its in workspace (of course, else it would be built on win32 ;) and thus
> not part of KDE platform.

indeed =) hopefully others aren't similarly mistaken about it's position in 
the library food chain ...

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