libplasma in 4.2: binary compatibility and moving to kdelibs

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Richard Dale wrote:
> I there any chance of the KConfigSkeleton classes being enhanced so you
> don't have to pass references to the constructors (especially references to
> primitive types). And then you would only be able to set and get values via
> property() and setProperty(), but is that a big issue? Do we need to be
> able to directly assign to the instance variables which are referenced?
> Would that be BIC and therefore impossible for KDE 4.2?

it would probably be doable, except that then you'd have syncronization issues 
in the current use case (where the data is shared) and memory consumption 
would go up.

the memory needs to be somewhere, and it's ok, esp in libkdecore, to require 
that memory to be elsewhere to avoid duplicated objects in memory.

anyways, a much bigger issue is getting KConfigSkeleton to use KConfigBase 
instead of KConfig...

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