External SVN item in kdebase/runtime/nepomuk/services/queryservice/lib

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Thu Sep 18 08:12:52 BST 2008


On 18.09.08 00:02:57, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >How do you suggest to solve the following:
> >
> >- a widget class thats not exported because its in kdelibs/kate and its
> >  not ready to be exposed (as in kate devs and our developer that works
> >  on it are not ready to guarantee BC. But the same widget is needed
> >  for a plugin in kdevplatform.
> 
> Copy the file and fork the class.

Not going to happen, its supposed to be the same in the plugin in
kdevelop and kate's code-completion widget.
 
> If it's not ready to be exposed, it'll probably change heavily. That means 
> it could break the other application at any moment. The developers of 
> said class do not necessarily know who is using them.

In theory thats correct, but reality looks quite a bit different. In
fact there's mostly only 1 person working on the class and thats the
person also maintaining the kdevelop plugin.

Andreas

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