API robustness - (was: Different ways to create a directory)

[Rafael Fernández López]

On Friday 14 August 2009 10:14:53 David Faure wrote:
> You can't solve every problem around the house with a hammer,
> there are different tools for different purposes.

True enough, but I don't think 5 different methods for creating a directory 
are justified. Please note that the basic 'redundancy' with Qt cannot be 
removed, since even if we had only one mkdir method we would have QDir::mkdir 
and KFoo::mkdir (if that was the only mkdir method on KDE).

However, in this very case I think KIO, NetAccess and QFile are enough for 
every purpose. If needed, they can be added flags.

I think I am going to create a techbase page for API users to write this kind 
of issues, so we can get them fixed for KDE 5. I hope I can have enough time 
for KDE 5, since this kind of things is one of my priorities...

And to sum up following your nice statement, the problem from my POV is when 
you have different tools for the same purpose (creating a directory, after 
all) ;)


Regards,
Rafael Fernández López.
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