Can kdecore depend on QtXml?

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Thu Jun 14 04:58:47 BST 2007


On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Kelly wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:32 pm Chusslove Illich wrote:
>> I was implementing the semantic markup for UI messages (like  
>> "Really delete
>> <filename>%1</filename>?"), and intended to use QXmlStreamReader for
>> parsing, when I realized that kdecore does not depend on QtXml at the
>> moment. Would it be a problem if this dependency is introduced to  
>> kdecore?
>
> I dunno about anyone else, but I would consider that a major  
> error.  Doesn't
> KDE itself use XML in various places?  Not requiring the QtXml  
> library is
> likely to make decent XML parsing hard to guarantee...
>

Just because we use XML in places doesn't necessarily mean that the  
library named libkdecore.so as installed on your file system depends  
on it. Right now, it's not needed, hence why it's being asked about. :)
--
Matt






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