Moving pop, imap and smtp koslaves from kdebase to kdepim

[Ralf Habacker]

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 04:44, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 08:44, Marc Mutz wrote:
> ...
>
> > Those three slaves are not at all "basic". From at least KDE 2.2
> > where KMail was made to use these slaves instead of it's own smtp
> > (and pop?) implementation, these slaves were used in
> > connection-oriented mode unlike almost any other "basic" ioslave.
> > Those two/three slaves share a metadata protocol to perform certain
> > special commands whose application end is only implemented in
> > KMail. The same goes for kio_nntp, which isn't even used by knode,
> > and is probably completely non-functional by now.
> >
> > The smtp slave contains some really ugly "I-want-to-be-sendmail"
> > hacks (like rfc822 header generation) that I'd really like to get
> > rid of as soon as possible. Moving it to kdepim would allow me to
> > do that for kdepim-3.3. Consider this an official request from the
> > current kio_smtp maintainer to move the slave to kdepim.
> >
> > The IMAP slave is _very_ tightly coupled to KMail. Just watch the
> > many simultaneous cross-CVS-module commits that are needed just to
> > fix IMAP-related bugs, not speaking of implement new features.
> > IIRC, both even share an enum (at least it was proposed they do not
> > long ago)!
> >
> > Summary: If you want to cleanup KDE's structure, move nntp, smtp,
> > pop3, and imap (in order of increasing urgency) to
> > kdepim/kioslaves.
>
My objectivies are based on the thought, that smtp and pop io slaves are 
generic usable, but when they are bounded so hard to kmail this seems to the 
best way, but let me ask one question: 

Because all kioslaves are installed in ($KDEDIR/share/services), what using 
application specific names for this slaves while moving to kdepim, so that 
the generic names smtp/pop3/nntp are free for a eventually new generic 
implementation sometime in the future ? 

> I'll support Marc here, and ask for the pop slave to be moved into
> kdepim also. IIRC I'm the current maintainer of the pop slave.
>
> If these ioslaves aren't moved into kdepim then I fear they could be
> branched into kdepim leading to redundant ioslaves in kdebase and
> unnecessarily duplicated code.

Ralf