Patch v4: Fix KEncodingProber crashiness

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Sat Mar 21 17:41:12 GMT 2009


Dan Meltzer wrote:
>I'm fairly sure that new api can't be added in a point release, which
>is going to make this difficult to backport...

Yes we can. This rule applies to Qt (forwards- and backwards-compatibility 
in patch-level releases) but not to KDE.

KDE frequently adds symbols and backports features that are important. In 
this case, to fix the API, please do it. Better than have applications 
written with the bad API.

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