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[Frans Englich]

On Friday 14 July 2006 11:00, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Le vendredi 14 juillet 2006 11:50, Simon Hausmann a écrit :
> > I agree that this would be a useful feature to have in Qt (especially if
> > you look at the numerous implementations in the Qt commandline tools ;-),
> > but I'm not convinced that this is a critical feature for KDE 4.0.
> > There's nothing fundamentally wrong with KCmdLineArgs and at this point
> > it is too late to add an entire new class to Qt 4.2.
> >
> > It is definitely something to consider for Qt 4.3.
>
> Then we will have that exact scenario:

> > On Thursday 13 July 2006 16:32, Frans Englich wrote:
> > > For that reason, I wouldn't be surprised if such a basic class pops
> > > into Qt later on, and then we'll have KCmdLineArgs and
> > > Qt's(duplication, things that doesn't work together, confusion, etc).

I obviously thinks that is problematic but I also understands 
Simon/Trolltech's reluctance to introduce features at this stage.

My main concern with trying to get something like that into Qt 4.2 is to 
achieve a good result. Writing such a class for Qt provides an opportunity to 
write a really rocking, innovative thingy. Delegating handling of switches to 
slots(perhaps) and to allow expressing things like "this option can only be 
specified when 'this' and 'this' option is present". It's tricky to make 
something like that mature in such a small time frame.

Handling translations needs thought too.

However, one could /attempt/ to come up with something, and if it's 
sufficiently stable one could ship it with Qt 4.2 and mark it as being 
expected to change in the future(as have been done before, IIRC). Then one 
could stabilize it for Qt 4.2.1 and make KDE 4.0 depend on Qt 4.2.1. Or 
simply just introduce the class in Qt 4.2.1..


Cheers,

		Frans