proposal: remove KTextEditor interface from kdelibs repository

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday, January 31, 2011, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 01.02.11 01:18:58, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > Alle martedì 1 febbraio 2011, Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto:
> > > > The concern that I have, on the other hand, is whether this can be
> > > > done in a source and binary compatible fashion. I just took a look
> > > > at
> > > 
> > > yes, it can. and i don't believe anything in kdelibs itself uses it.
> > 
> > khtml does (but we know very few people care about it).
> 
> Indeed the debugger does use it

erf; two dependencies in kdelibs on KTextEditor. ok, that makes it a no go 
then ... hm.. looking at it, only khtml has a build-time dependency on it. if 
the texteditor part isn't available (or the source of the crash even? :) what 
does the debugger do at that point?

i should go hunt down ervin and find out where that nice kdelibs 
interdependencies chart has gone to ...

> > > * it would be an interesting and useful experiment with modularization
> > > of kdelibs
> > 
> > I don't think taking out random pieces of kdelibs piece-by-piece is
> > something useful to do over time: either you split the whole at once, or
> > you don't.
> 
> As there's not even a clear idea of where to split kdelibs, this request
> is just a different way of saying "don't do it". Not to mention the
> amount of work necessary to do such a modularization at once.

exactly ... i think it would be wise for us to try it with something small and 
non-critical first to discover what the challenges are and what issues arise 
when doing so.

oh well, KTextEditor isn't an option, 

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