Malaga Discussions III

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 15:37, Harri Porten wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > kdebase in it's current form is too strictly bound to the UNIX desktop we
> > developed so far. Many in the past raised the concern that you don't need
> > kicker on Windows, but you still would like to have the ioslaves and the
> > helpcenter on it - still both are bound together in one SVN module. So we
> > decided to split kdebase into two subsets: those apps that are foundation
> > for other applicatins and those apps that make up the KDE desktop. This
> > wasn't really controversial.
>
> How about putting those foundation apps into kdelibs then? I'd see no
> real difference between DLLs and executables as long as they both make up
> a framework.

But then perhaps as another (sub-)module of kdelibs to make a clear 
difference. (The programs (e.g. KIO slaves) are perhaps nearly mandatory to 
run an application but they are not to build (including link) them.)

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>
> Harri.

Have a nice day!