KHTML binary incompatible change

[Luigi Toscano]

Il 04 marzo 2015 09:50:32 CET, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> ha scritto:
> Ahoy,
> 
> As of 2015-03-03 KHTML has a commit that renames a public function of
> the DOMString class introduced in KF5.5 last year. This constitutes a
> binary and source incompatible change that should either be revisited
> to be made compatible or the libKF5KHtml.so version needs to be
> increased to 6 starting with the KDE Frameworks 5.8 release.
> Since it appears this was a straightforward rename without
> functionality change, I would suggest to reinstate the old function,
> mark it deprecated and have it do nothing more than forward to the
> call into
> the new function.
> 
> commit:
> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=khtml.git&a=commit&h=528217c284c7386c3dd0c07870d243c3a5dc6853

The commit is marked as forward- port of a kdelibs commit: does it introduce an ABI change as well? It must be reverted too in case, and before a new 4.14 is shipped.

Ciao

-- 
Luigi