At 2002/4/23 09:19+0100 Chris Howells writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > > > Unlesss they include the kde packages in case. > > > > KDE standardising needs to follow Qt getting a stable API (maybe Qt3 does > > this). What do Troll tech think > > 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM OzLabs Linux Development Group Canberra, Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
