KDE is not an OS platform... (And neither is Gnome)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On October 28, 2009, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hmm, I don't really understand this email.

the bits of context which are missing, and make it very hard to understand 
nf's email, are:

* nf2 would like to have KIO use GIO; this is part of a general idea to make 
as much of KDE's "behind the scenes" infrastructure use things implemented in 
C on top of glib. the idea communicated to me on irc is that "glib and C is 
_the_ platform here, so we should use it instead of anything we make on our 
own".

* this has been discussed at great lengths a few times on irc and on mailing 
lists (inc this one); the discussions have included nf2, maintainers of the 
software in question and others with interests in these technologies

* nf2 has indeed done the "right thing" in that he's actually written code to 
match his ideas; actually writing code is really more than many others can 
say, and i do respect that quite a bit about nf2 and his ideas on these 
matters

* for various reasons, the approaches taken by nf2's code have been turned 
down by maintainers (such as Kevin Ottens as seen on 
http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1951/ ... Kevin's reply there is pretty "short" 
because it's a discussion he and nf2 have already had in the past and i can 
empathize with Kevin's lack of desire to be forced into having that same 
conversation repeatedly)

it's one of those unfortunate circumstances where someone has written code 
that doesn't mesh with the upstream project maintainer's goals. i do think nf2 
has all the best of intentions and certainly has put in good amounts of effort 
(nf2 is also very pleasant to work with, i might add :). the maintainers of 
the code he is offering these specific patches to simply disagree on the 
points at hand. so i don't think there is any bad happening here, just a 
disagreement of opinion. thankfully we have maintainers to offer resolution 
instead of things trailing on forever and the "last person speaking wins" 
being the way we develop our software.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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