[kgraphviewer-devel] Re: Many wishes + will to implement them :-)

[Milian Wolff]

On Sunday 21 November 2010 19:05:52 Gaël (aka Kleag) wrote:
> Le dimanche 21 novembre 2010 18:48:10, vous avez écrit :
> > 2010/11/21 Gaël (aka Kleag) <kleag at free.fr>:
> > 
> > 1)
> > Maintain all the methods both in the widget interface and in the
> > KPart. (Full source/binary compatibility)
> > 
> > 2)
> > Maintain all the methods in the KPart interface, but freedom to modify
> > the widget interface. (May break code using the widget interface)
> > 
> > 3)
> > Never lose any features in both interfaces, but to get the same
> > features, user code must be adapted.
> > 
> > If the answer is 1), the MVC improvement probably can't be implemented
> > on the existing classes. I will need to copy&paste the code into
> > classes with a different name and then modify it.
> > 
> > If the answer is 2), I will probably be able to do what I want in the
> > existing classes.
> > 
> > If the answer is 3), I will be sure to do all the changes I have in mind.
> 
> I think it's 3. To my knowledge, only massif-vizualizer and the kdevelop
> flowchart plugin use the part and only to display graphs without editing
> features. And they know that the API is not stabilized. Milian can  confirm
> that I think.
> I have also another tool with graph editing features (to edit nlp syntactic
> analysis) but it is not public currently and is not actively developed. So,
> when I will work on it again I will be able to adapt it to a new API.

As long as you document the required upgrade path I'm ok with that, I'd also 
port ControlFlowGraph plugin for KDevelop.

But since both currently use external .dot files, it should work as-is in the 
future, just a recompile required to care for the BIC changes I'd say.

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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