[Kde-hardware-devel] Exporting some Solid symbols

[Arno Rehn]

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 15:53:35 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Hi Arno,
> 
> On Tuesday 15 June 2010 14:29:37 Arno Rehn wrote:
> > I've noticed that many of the symbols in Solid::Networking,
> > Solid::Networking::Notifier and Solid::PowerManagement::Notifier are not
> > exported.
> > I don't know why that is, but if you could export them it would be a huge
> > help for the bindings developers :).
> > 
> > Currently especially the Notifier classes are difficult to handle. We
> > can't wrap the signals in our SMOKE libs, because we get linking errors,
> > and we can't even access them properly at run-time, because
> > Notifier::staticMetaObject isn't exported either. The virtual method call
> > to metaObject() works, but that's not enough to implement syntactic sugar
> > for the bindings languages.
> > 
> > So if you could put a SOLID_EXPORT at least in front of the ::Notifier
> > classes, that'd be great and it would improve usability of the bindings
> > by quite a bit :).
> > 
> > P.S.: I can do the change myself if I get permission to do so.
> 
> If you could propose a patch for everything you'd like to see done, it's
> probably the quickest process. It would be nice to have this stuff bindable
> for 4.5.0.
Good. I posted a review request for kdelibs: 
http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4324/

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Arno Rehn
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