REQUEST: Move pop3, smtp, and ldap kioslaves

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Mon Apr 23 21:15:50 BST 2007


On Monday 23 April 2007 3:37:09 pm Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2007 19:37, Tom Albers wrote:
> > Op ma 23 apr 2007 16:50 schreef u:
> > > On Monday 23 April 2007 13:06, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > > As long as only PIM apps need them I don't see a reason for not
> > > > having them in pimlibs though. The problem: I don't know if there
> > > > are other apps using pop and smtp slaves.
> > >
> > > If only PIM apps need them I would actually put them directly into
> > > kdepim. They aren't libs after all. But I think there were
> > > applications outside kdepim using them. I don't recall which apps
> > > these were, though.
> >
> > Mailody (playground/pim) already depends on kdepimlibs, I really dont
> > like to depend on kdepim for smtp.
> 
> FWIW, I've reconsidered and I'm now fine with them staying in 
> kdebase/runtime.
> 
> In the past we wanted to move them to kdepim in order to make it 
> possible to release newer versions of those kioslaves together with a 
> separate kdepim release. Since there never was a separate kdepim 
> release and probably never will be a separate kdepim release I don't 
> really see an advantage in having the kioslaves in kdepimlibs or 
> kdepim.
> 

I withdraw my request then.
To me they fit logically in kdepimlibs.  But I'm ok with the current situation.

So:
 kdepim->kdebase->kdepimlibs->kdelibs

(kdebase/kdeprint requires kdepimlibs.  there may be other pim dependencies in kdebase)





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