KArchive design changes

[Mario Bensi]

Hi,

Thanks to work on karchive. I need to take time to look your code and find how 
to integrate it in karchive (in kde framework). For the moment, i haven't lot 
of spare time, if you can wait, i could check this in 2 weeks ago.

Mario

On Sunday, July 22, 2012 10:55:49 AM Pier Luigi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on alternative desktop environment based on Wayland and
> Qt5 mainly designer for Maui, my Linux distribution, and I would like
> to share some work with you.
> 
> Some time ago I needed to create an API for accessing archive files
> that could be used by many programs.
> The code is here:
> 
> https://gitorious.org/hawaii/vibe/trees/master/src/kits/core/archive
> 
> It's based on KArchive but uses the new MIME Type API provdied by Qt5
> in order to determine the archive type and load the appropriate
> plugin, so other people can extend it easily.
> 
> The VArchive class has no protected members, it's used by applications
> that want to open archives by passing either the filename or a
> QIODevice to the constructor.  VArchiveHandler is a base class to
> implement plugins and contains all the KArchive protected members.
> 
> Plugins are here:
> 
> https://gitorious.org/hawaii/vibe/trees/master/src/plugins/archivehandlers
> 
> The code might need some changes, for example removing
> VStandardDirectories which is my namespace to retrieve common paths
> (Maui uses a different file hierarchy which separates what's installed
> by the operating system from what's installed by the user using
> bundles or manually building the software or whatever). Cleaning it up
> shouldn't take you a lot of time.
> 
> I'm sharing this with you not only because it's a derivate work which
> might benefit you but also because I know you are going to put a lot
> of kdelibs stuff into Qt. This is amazing and it's what I always
> hoped.  I've seen KArchive in tier1 (kdelibs, frameworks branch), if
> this is going to be pushed for Qt 5.1 I might help porting the
> VArchive staff to it and submit to Gerrit.