welcome

[Don Melton]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've created this new mailinglist and subscribed everybody from the CC 
> list
> of the initial mail of Don.

Thanks again.  Since Maciej didn't receive your welcome mail, he may 
not be on the list.  But I told him to send you a mail directly to make 
sure.
>
> This list is only for the internals of khtml and kjs. Other, KDE 
> specific
> stuff is going to be handled by kfm-devel@kde.org still.
>
> There are a few other people from other open source projects 
> interested in
> joining the efforts, they will subscribe to this mailing list as well.
> However the audience will be limited, we won't allow users to join and 
> bitch
> about bugs ;-)

Of course not! ;)
>
> We've browsed most of your changes and are really happy with what we 
> saw so
> far. The KJS changes are big, and we're currently thinking on how to
> integrate them, as they break both Binary and Source compatibility. 
> This is
> not acceptable in KDE 3.x release cycle according to our development
> guidelines.

Yeah, that's what we figured might happen.  We realized that we were 
breaking binary compatibility but for a significant performance gain on 
i-Bench, it seemed worth it.
>
> The best we could come up so far is starting with kjs2, which will be
> installed in parallel and used by khtml and integrate your Identifier 
> and
> Collector, as well as the other fixes one after the other. This way 3rd
> party users of kjs1 will not be affected by the massive BC and SC 
> breakage.

Cool!

-- Gramps
>
> To end with a question:
>
> I've seen some namespace related changes in the khtml/dom subdir. Are 
> those
> still needed for your compile environment or can they be nuked? I 
> don't mind
> merging them, but I want to know why.
>
> For example like khtml/dom/css_value.cpp you changed
>
> using namespace DOM;
>
> into
>
> namespace DOM { ... }
>
>
> -- 
> Dirk (received 520 mails today)
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