RFC: A Qt-only library in kdesupport

[Benjamin Meyer]

A bunch of good did come out of that :)  The biggest problem was the  
fact that KDE3's KApplication was a beast touching everything so many  
things coulnd't be Qt only because of that.  I spent several months  
removing things one by one from it until I could run a kde app with  
QApplication and not KApplication (see recent ml archive).  But just  
doing that one cleanup took a lot of work, combined with the inability  
to remove dead classes and the effort required for every change, and  
the fact that kde4 didn't even work back than wore me down.

There are a several small Qt libraries out there these days and even  
Arora has a folder of BSD licensed utility classes  (src/utils) that  
are just Qt addon classes with no Arora dependancy and would probably  
be useful for other applications (several have been copied into other  
Qt apps in fact)
  http://github.com/Arora/arora/tree/master

A similar idea brought up at the time was to make little static  
libraries in kde that wouldn't have to be BC until we worked out the  
best api.  I still think that has value.  While I take time to make  
the API good when a class is initially added to Arora's utils if it is  
in the way of a fix/feature I can change it.

-Benjamin Meyer

On Aug 13, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Kevin Ottens wrote:

> On Thursday 13 August 2009 09:48:01 Kevin Ottens wrote:
>> IIRC in the early times of the KDE4 discussions someone (was it  
>> danimo? got
>> published on his blog for sure) came up with the idea to split libs  
>> in
>> Libs- Framework and Libs-Components, which would contain the  
>> classes which
>> are self containing and Qt only.
>
> In case someone wonders, the blog I'm referring to is this one:
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1390
>
> Cheers.
> -- 
> Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
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