KArchive design changes

[Pier Luigi]

2012/10/12 Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org>

> On Monday 24 September 2012 08:49:56 Pier Luigi wrote:
> > I will use it of course, maintaining code already available in a larger
> > codebase is not an option I would totally avoid it, although I hope it
> will
> > go in Qt 5.1+ because otherwise I will have to make my own github repo
> > with a copy of it.
>
> I can't predict the future, but still, I doubt it will go in Qt itself to
> be
> honest. I don't see why that would force you to make your own github
> repository and your own copy though.
>

To avoid the whole kdelibs dependency. What I meant here is that KDE made
great things like Solid, KArchive etc... and it would be very handy for
other projects if they were available as separate repositories.
It would also help making plain Qt apps and KDE apps less different.


>
> > What's you plan for pushing more kdelibs stuff in Qt 5.x guys?
>
> That's mainly about adding a class here and there, or contributing features
> and fixes in existing classes at that point. There's no plan for complete
> libraries (it's in fact very expensive as it basically means a rewrite
> because
> of legal reasons).
>
> There might be exceptions of course.
>

Thanks.

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