RFC: Drop notice: KNetwork

[Thiago Macieira]

Matt Rogers wrote:
>Kopete will want UPnP support. UPnP support will need multicast sockets.
> Is it possible to subclass from QUdpSocket (or QAbstractSocketBase, if
> need be) to get this or does Trolltech intend to support this feature
> at some point in the future?

Any extension of the socket classes must be done inside QtNetwork itself. 
It's simply not possible to extend QtNetwork from outside it, due to the 
way it is designed. The front-end classes (QTcpSocket and QUdpSocket) 
don't do anything: all of the interesting code is in QAbstractSocket and 
the back-end (non-public) socket engine classes.

This is the first I've heard of multicast sockets being required for 
something in KDE. It's also the reason why I did not implement it 
earlier.

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