[PATCH] Add a removeDir function to KDE 3.5.x

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:58, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> >> >As for KDE4, should be makeDir be moved too?
> >>
> >> No. For KDE4, use QDir stuff. If you don't find an equivalent (I don't
> >> think there is an equivalent of "rm -rf" there), let me know.
> >
> >Sure, it would be the best that QDir could remove a non-empty directory,
> > but cannot. (As written, it is Qt Issue N104800 and the wish was
> > refused,)
> 
> The reason it was rejected is that it's a liability. That much is true.
> 
> So, isn't it a liability to provide such a function in KDE?

Liability? If a remove-dir is needed in various places of KDE, isn't it 
actually worse to code it differently in all those places rather than having
one working implementation in one place?

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).