[Kde-pim] move ldap ioslave into kdepim(libs)

Tom Albers tomalbers at kde.nl
Fri Sep 7 09:46:57 BST 2007


At Thursday 06 September 2007 23:35, you wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thursday 06 September 2007, Tom Albers wrote:
> > Op do 6 sep 2007 18:03 schreef u:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > > And should we move imap4 and sieve into kdepimlibs with pop3, smtp,
> > > > > and ldap?
> > >
> > > It's ok to move (as a dependency point of view) kio_ldap into kdepim, the
> > > last (and only) non-kdepim user was KUser in kdeadmin, but it is
> > > converted to use KLDAP (from kdepimlibs).
> > >
> > > Maybe smtp should have a bigger user base (at least potentionally), since
> > > I can guess of apps that send mails.
> >
> > Apps that send mail should hook into the mailtransport library in
> > kdepimlibs for a consistent look and settings throughout KDE.  So ++vote
> > here.
> That also means that the SMTP ioslave can only be in kdepimlibs or 
> kdebase-runtime, but not in kdepim, as it is used by the mailtransport 
> library internally. And we don't want that applications like Mailody depend 
> on kdepim, right?

right. it would make mailody depend on kmail. 
Till stated earlier 'everything should depend on kmail', but i don't agree ;-)
 
> So I am fine with moving the pop and ldap ioslaves to kdepim, but I think the 
> smtp one should either stay in kdebase-runtime or get moved into kdepimlibs 

I agree. But a _much_ larger problem is the fact that the kio can not sent mails > 15k at the moment.

> (although it is not guaranteed that the smtp slave is going to exist during 
> the KDE4 lifetime).

oh? You got plans?

Toma


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