Removing WinCE support
Stephen Kelly
steveire at gmail.com
Wed May 9 14:47:17 UTC 2012
Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> KDAB made kdelibs in some way work with Win CE.
>
> Now Win CE is a very different OS, and IMO we should not even strive to
> port KDE to such OSs (limitations in address space per process, static
> linking only, etc.). This is not anti-MS, this also applies for other
> embedded OSs like e.g. eCos.
>
> Add to that that CMake does not support WinCE.
>
> So, we have code in kdelibs which can only be built with a patched version
> of cmake, to make it portable to a very different OS.
>
>
> I'd like to remove the code for Win CE in the frameworks branch.
>
> A strong argument to keep it would be if the Win CE support would make it
> upstream into cmake, so there would be at least a way to compile it.
>
> Alex
I think that's a reasonable conclusion from
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.frameworks/256/focus=73695
It can be re-added later if really needed I guess.
Thanks,
Steve.
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