BIC changes in kdelibs: knewstuff2

[Alex Merry]

On Tuesday 08 April 2008 20:53:11 jeremy at scitools.com wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008 13:33:41 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Is knewstuff2 within our BC policy of kdelibs?
> >
> > BC is broken - to point just two:
> >
> > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/knewstuff/knewstuff2/core/entry.h
> >?r 1=794075&r2=794096
> > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/knewstuff/knewstuff2/core/entry.h
> >?r 1=794066&r2=794075
>
> hmm, it's supposed to  I believe.  Should I revert those changes?

I believe for the constness parts you should just be able to add in a second 
const version of the method, and call the const implementation from the non-
const implementation.  That should maintain BC while allowing the method to be 
called on const objects.

Alex



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