Version scripts for kdelibs

[Luciano Montanaro]

I see some work has been done to limit the visibility of internal symbols 
in kdelibs.

KJS and KHTM now have version scripts, would it be useful to add version 
scripts for kdecore and kdeui, for example?

I think it should be possible to at least hide the *Private classes.

I'm not sure it is worth it, but a simple grep for Private shows 500 hits 
in "nm -D libkdecore.so.4.2.0", and probably more symbols could be marked 
private too.

in kdemacros.h there is the definition of the KDE_NOEXPORT macro, that is 
probably the best solution longer term. I see it redefined in kdefx/kcpuinfo,
shouldn't it include kdemacros instead?

Finally, in my very short investigation, I think I found a couple more classes 
that should be safe to hide in KHTML.

If these changes are considered useful, I'd like to work on them.

Luciano


Index: libkhtml.map
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RCS file: /home/kde/kdelibs/khtml/libkhtml.map,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -p -u -r1.5 libkhtml.map
--- libkhtml.map        19 Jan 2003 23:55:26 -0000      1.5
+++ libkhtml.map        22 Oct 2003 12:31:49 -0000
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
     vtable*KJS::*;
     KJSProxy*;
     KJSCPUGuard*;
+    KHTMLViewPrivate::*;
+    KHTMLPartPrivate::*;
     khtml::*
   };
 };

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