Why don't the KConfig* classes have reference counting on their d-pointers, value semantics?

[Thiago Macieira]

Matthias Kretz wrote:
>Simple answer:
>
>KSharedConfig(Ptr) was added at some point in KDE 3 IIRC. For KDE 4 I
> would have liked to do make KConfig a value-based, ref-counted class
> (like KSharedConfigPtr is now), but the porting effort was too big (I
> did make KInstance value based and that was one week full-time porting
> work - you do that once and never again...).

One solution to the problem is to create a set of wrapper classes that 
have value semantic and keep the current config classes in their 
ref-counted d-pointers.

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