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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