last call for alcohol .. er .. BIC API changes

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 03 November 2008, Simon Edwards wrote:
> Helloooo,
>
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > i'd like to move libplasma over to kdelibs on Nov 3rd. it'll be a fair
> > amount of work, and i'll announce here when i've started so other people
> > don't get caught with local changes to libplasma.
> >
> > so this is the "last call" for binary incompatible API changes ... time
> > to speak up or forever hold your peace, where "forever" is defined as
> > "until kde 5"
>
> My only concern is that the script engine APIs seem to be missing a
> number of methods which match the C++ API. For example, dataenginescript
> doesn't have a counter part to "QStringList DataEngine::sources()" which
> AFAIK makes it not possible to implement source listing functionality in
> a scripted data engine.

i sat down for five minutes and added the two most glaring missing things from 
DataEngineScript.

in the time it took you to write that email, you could have done the same.

> (Sorry, I don't have time right now to give more detail. Should the
> scripting APIs be part of the BC API?

yes

> can that be delayed?)

it's all be sitting there for nearly a year now and i get ~zero feedback from 
those who might use it. i honestly don't see that improving and as such don't 
see that as a reason to hold things up.

ok, that's not quite true. i do see that improving when people start taking 
scripting seriously.

i'm very surprised that the work going into scriptengines has mostly been in 
the form of writing bindings with little to no care as to what is actually in 
libplasma itself. that's a very poor model for creating scripting support for 
applications, imo.

i had the bulk of feedback from the GoogleGadgets and Edje implementors, which 
is fasincating.

in any case, take the BC requirements as a call to action and look over those 
classes so we can get them into the order you'd be comfortable with.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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