Qt4addons module?

Harri Porten porten at froglogic.com
Wed May 25 08:13:34 BST 2005


On Wed, 25 May 2005, Brad Hards wrote:

> That leads me to wonder if it might we be better off abstracting those parts
> of kdelibs that are really Qt addons/plugins out of kdelibs, so that they
> could be used independently of KDE4. The downside is that it would end up
> being another dependency. The upside is that it might attract non-KDE
> developers - acting as a focal point for Qt community support, and getting
> more codecs/image handlers/whatever for KDE.
>
> Thoughts?

Counter proposal: leave the kdelibs dependency (limited to core libs) and
make the libraries portable and ship them with the add-ons. No need to
strip away anything that should instead be available for every programmer
outside of KDE as well.

Harri.





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