KIO: separating the API from the implementation

[Thiago Macieira]

nf2 wrote:
>Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> I want to do some work there, but given my current amount of free time
>> available and the upcoming freeze dates, I don't think we can pull it
>> off.
>
>yes - seems quite impossible in such a short period of time. do you
>think it would work to create a new KIO API in a separate namespace
>("kio4" or "kioapi") and depricate the old API during the 4.x series?

Not likely. We'd have to duplicate the *entire* API to do that.

>the new API could use the old API internally, but also wrap other VFS
>libraries...

That would create inconsistencies between KDE applications, which I don't 
find acceptable.

I'm afraid we're postponing this to KDE 5.

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