binary compatibility and qwidget::event

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Fri Jul 12 10:24:35 BST 2019


But why was that BIC to begin with? Which of the "don'ts" did it violate?

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:18 AM Kai Uwe Broulik <kde at privat.broulik.de> wrote:
>
> To avoid situations like [1] and [2]
>
> [1]
> https://cgit.kde.org/kiconthemes.git/commit/?id=1e9af6c54470e890597739f8f2189b0743a00b6f
> [2]
> https://cgit.kde.org/kiconthemes.git/commit/?id=083bb8a80fd5941e6fcbaf1ec12a08d8f8c881a5
>
> Am 12.07.19 um 11:14 schrieb Harald Sitter:
> > Hey
> >
> > our binary compatibility page [1] states that one should
> >
> > "reimplement event in QObject-derived classes, even if the body for
> > the function is just calling the base class' implementation."
> >
> > Does anyone know the reason this helps maintain BC?
> >
> > [1] https://community.kde.org/Policies/Binary_Compatibility_Issues_With_C%2B%2B
> >
> > HS
> >
>
>
>




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