libplasma in 4.2: binary compatibility and moving to kdelibs

[Alexis Ménard]

i'm for an another API review...Akademy is near and it can be done quickely.
Is Rob Scheepmaker comes to Akademy?

We can do another round in our lib, wait a little (2 months) and move plasma
into kdelibs. The time can be used to test our api in applets especially the
new baby : Extender.



2008/7/29 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> hi all...
>
> so 4.2 is here and the Big Questions come with it:
>
> Binary Compatibility
> ============
>  should we break binary compatibility one last time? if so that means we
> can:
>
>        * do one more API review (though it won't be nearly as drastic as
> the one in
> 4.1)
>        * add some of the new features that are coming in 4.2 in a more
> natural way.
>
> and example of "more natural" is having a virtual initExtenderItem in
> Applet;
> that's a binary incompatible change, and the alternative is to put it in
> Extender (a new class) and make people subclass that. however, it would be
> less comfortable that, imho.
>
> Where Does It Live?
> ============
>
> moving libplasma into kdelibs was a goal we stated for 4.2 back when
> figuring
> out what 4.1 would be. i'd like to see this happen still as it would allow
> more applications to use libplasma in more interesting ways.
>
> the Package* classes may want to move into khotnewstuff ... that's
> something
> we'd need to examine.
>
> ConfigXml really ought to be in libkdeui alongside KConfigSkeleton imho.
> (kdeui
> because it uses QColor; perhaps we could manage to shove it into kdecore
> using
> QVariant cleverly? hm.)
>
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo
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