Request for deprecation of KDESu::SshProcess and removal of kdesu_stub/kdessh

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau kossebau at kde.org
Fri Dec 18 21:34:14 GMT 2009


Hi Ossi,

Vendredi, le 18 decembre 2009, à 22:18, Oswald Buddenhagen a écrit:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:02:47PM +0100, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Additionally the class KDESu::SshProcess in kdelibs should be marked as
> > deprecated. Perhaps it could be even removed, as I do not think anyone is
> > using this class/these symbols?
> 
> somewhat risky business, as it is part of the api after all. otoh, if it
> (the class itself, not the frontend) is provably so broken that nobody
> could have used it for anything, then i'd not mind "breaking" the api.

No, but yes? I take your last word as the deciding one ;)
Question is: Does it work on all platforms to remove symbols?
 
> > Also kdesu_stub does no longer needed to be built and installed,
> 
> guess why it is called kdesu_stub ...

Because it got/gets chopped? :)
 
> it would be an interesting exercise to replace kdesud+access classes
> with proper kwallet integration ...

So you take on this challenge? That is a word. Great, hehe :)

Cheers
Friedrich
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