[Portland] Re: Project Portland, RuDI and the Generic desktop adapter

[Dan Kegel]

On 12/10/05, Martin Konold <martin.konold at erfrakon.de> wrote:
> No, this is not the full picture. From time to time you want to be able to
> change the API in an ABI incompatible way. For KDE we refrained from doing
> so  for the entire KDE 3.x line. But to KDE 4 we intentionally want to break
> both the API and ABI in order to allow us to innovate.
>
> In general my conclusion is that we cannot provide ABI stability for the
> desktop for something like 10 years.

You lost me there.  Just because Qt4 comes out doesn't mean Qt3 apps
break.
- Dan

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