[Digikam-devel] please look this comment... incredible...

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/11/15 Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>

> Dnia Saturday 15 of November 2008, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> > 2008/11/15 Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl>
> >
> > > Dnia Saturday 15 of November 2008, Andi Clemens napisał:
> > > > If he wants to compete with that, he just has to write a better app
> > > > than digiKam :-)
> > >
> > > Or even better: join digiKam. Am I crazy? I don't think so: due to
> > > pluggable architecture of KDE and digiKam itself it should be possible
> > > to fill some gaps in digiKam functionality with commercial/closed
> > > source plug ins.
> >
> > yes, i'm totally agree.
>
> Hmm, Marcel pointed to important thing: kipi-plugins are out of the
> question (*) but there are few other things which would not touch kipi
> code:
>
> - write extensive Kross backend and do things with that


ah, the famous Kross API. To have take a look few month ago in Kross
project, i cannot fnd a good and simple exemple to implement Kross support
in digiKam. It sound complex and not clear...


>
> - networked multiuser database backend: without hooks directly into
>  digiKam code would be hard but not impossible. Smart programmer could
>  find few ways to do it, I am sure.


hum, this is planed later 0.10.0, but in digiKam core, not libkipi...


>
>
> (*) KDE policy is that libraries should be LGPL'ed just to make such
> things possible.


For me, to change libkipi from GPL to LGPL is not a problem...

Gilles
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