Re: C++ ...

[Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org>]

At 2002/4/23 09:19+0100  Chris Howells writes:
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> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 8:51 am, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > A distribution can both be LSB conforming, and ship with KDE libraries.
> > > It's just that right not, KDE is not a part of the LSB, so LSB compliant
> > > applications cannot link to them dynamically.
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> > Unlesss they include the kde packages in case.
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> > KDE standardising needs to follow Qt getting a stable API (maybe Qt3 does
> > this). What do Troll tech think
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> Excuse my ignorance, but as a KDE developer (well, not a very good one ;) ), 
> I've been rather confused at some of the things being said in this thread. 
> What exactly does "Qt getting a stable API" mean?
> 
> Between Qt 2 and Qt 3, the API used for programming changed very
> little. 

Its actually the ABI not API which needs to be stable. And with
the C++ ABI not yet being stable the Qt ABI would also change
depending on the version of the compiler used.

Chris
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cyeoh@au.ibm.com
IBM OzLabs Linux Development Group
Canberra, Australia


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