KMime API review

[Volker Krause]

On Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2026 16:31:26 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Sune 
Vuorela wrote:
> On 2025-09-15, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > As requested during Akademy.
> 
> I have been toying a bit with the new API, and so far I at least have a
> couple of questions:
> 
> Content/Message:
> 
>   template <typename T> T *header(CreatePolicy create = Create);
> 
> Who owns the header if it is just created? This might just be a
> documentation issue
> (and similar for other headers)

https://invent.kde.org/pim/kmime/-/merge_requests/201 clarifies the 
documentation.

> We both have
> parent/child ownership explicit Content(Content *parent = nullptr);
>  and Content in unique_ptr's.

Removing the parent argument from the ctor is already in progress, waiting on 
MRs in messagelib to land which remove the last uses of that.

Regards,
Volker
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